... have lost their original meanings. The word vixen was once used as the feminine of fox by the Southern-English. For fox they said vox; for fromthey said vram; and for the older word fat they said ... words rather than of their meaning. We seldom find instances of complete conversion of one part of speech into another. When, in a sentence above, the terms the great, the wealthy, are used, they ... names any vehicle of a certain kind used for hauling: the words are of the widest application. We may say, the man here, or the man in front of you, but the word man is here hedged in by other...