Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mr. Masson” in chapter 4 of James Russell Lowell, Among my books:
...e addition of the suffix th to the adjective high.
Is an adjective, then, at the base of growth, earth, birth, truth, and other words of this kind?
Horne Tooke made a better guess than this.
If Mr. Masson be right in supposing that a peculiar meaning is implied in the spelling bearth (Paradise Lost, IX. 624), which he interprets as collective produce, though in the only other instance where it occurs ...
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