An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]

If any serious number of deck erections have been left unfaired, these percentages will be too low.

My pluckly little friend Dash was (considering his small offensive powers) the bravest of the brave; for his winning way of bringing stones or anything else he could pick up to you, whenever he wanted a caress, or some little tit-bit to eat, had completely ground down his teeth to an unbrushable size.

And herein doe I exercise my selfe to haue alwayes a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.