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Words the fame in Spelling, but different in found and fignification.

B4D, not good

bad, did bid born in the year 1720 born it patiently bow, to shoot with bow, to bend conjure, to inchant conjure, to fwear does, the plural of doe a beaft

'does, doth, as he does not speak

form, or figure form, to fit on

Fob, a proper name

job, of work

lead, metal

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lease, or glean lives, or liveth lives, the plural of life loofe, to untie or let go loofe, diffolute, or li centious

read, I have read read, I will read fow, a beaft Sow, to caft feed Swinger, that swinges Swinger, a great lie tear, to rend tear, that drops from the eyes wind, that blows wind a cord

wound, in the body wound, did wind

There are befides the foregoing, feveral words, that are the fame in fpelling, yet dif fer in found, as much as a different accent caufes; and differ in fignification, as much as a noun and a verb. Such are for the most

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part words of two fyllables, which may be lometimes a noun, and fometimes a verb: for when they are nouns, they are accented on the first fyllable; and when verbs on the fecond.

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Words the fame in Spelling and found; but different in fignification; which are call'd Equivocal words.

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beaver, an afternoon's

blow, a ftroke
blow the fire
broil, difturbance
broil meat
cafe, or chance
cafe, for needles
chear, comfort
chear, provifion
cock or hen
cock of hay
cock or tap

confort, a companion
confort of mufick
corn, as wheat, &c.
corn on the toes
course, not fine
courfe or race, or man-

ner of life court of a king court, to make love crow, a bird

bear the weight

beaver, a beaft

luncheon

billet for fuel

ghoft

crow, to crow as a cock die, to give up the

billet, a foldier's ticket die colours

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elder, a tree

elder, a fenior

elder, an udder or dug Eve, Adam's wife eve, or vigil of a feftival fair, beautiful fair, a place of buying and felling flea, vermin

flea, to take off the skin faft, abftinence from

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flower, in the garden
flower, a filh
flower, of wheat
frail, brittle
frail a basket

gall part of the entrails

gall, a bitter nut grate for coals

grate nutmeg

bail from the clouds

bail, to falute

bard, not foft

hard, not eafy, difficult

bide, a skin bide, to conceal bull of a ship bull, a husk

Hull, a town in York Shire kind, or fort kind, civil, or friendly laft, not firft laft for a fhoe lean, not fat

lear to lean on any thing

leave, permiffion leave, to quit or forfake

leaves, the plural of

leaf

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Lent, before Eafter

lent did lend

lies in bed

lies, untruths

lies, tells lies

light and darkness light, not heavy line of a book

line, to line a cloak links of a chain links, torches links, fort of puddings liver, an inward part liver, he that lives long, not short long for fruit

March, a month

march in the road

Mark, a man's name

mark, to note, or a

token

mass, or heap

meal, flower

meet, fit

meet in the street mews like a cat Mews, a river

mite, coin, as the widow's mite

mite, an infect

moor, a black moor, barren ground nail of a finger nail of iron own, acknowledge own, his own fault pale, colour pale, a ftake perch, a fish perch, 7 yards

pie, to eat

pie, a bird

piftol to fhoot with

piftol, a Spanish coin

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mafs, an unbloody fa- pitch and tar

crifice

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pledge, in drinking poll to cut hair

poll for parliament

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