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Society for Pure English, Tract 02 - On English Homophones by Robert Seymour Bridges;Society for Pure English
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DUN (_adj._): now only in combination as dun-coloured.

EAR = to plough.

FAIN and FEIGN: prob. mutual loss due to undefined sense of
FAIN. n.b. FANE also obsolete.

FEAT (_adj._) and FEATLY: well lost.

FERE.

FIT = section of a poem.

FLAW: now confined to a flaw in metal, &c.

FLEET (_verb_) and FLEETING, as in the sun-dial motto, 'Time
like this shade doth fleet and fade.'

FOIL: common verb, obsolete.

GEST: lost in _jest_.

GIRD = to scoff: an old well-established word.

GOUT = a drop of liquor.

GUST = taste (well lost).

HALE = haul (well lost).

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