III. The Corporeal ACTIONS peculiar to Men,* or the several wayes of expressing their mental Conceptions, are either by

Articulate sounds; considered according to

The general name, together with the privation of it.

• SPEAKING, talk, utter-ance, mentioning, Elocution, pronounce, express, deliver, Prolation, Spokes-man, effable, voluble, fluent, say, tell, mutter, mumble, jabber, jargon, vein, Grammar, Rhetoric, Ora∣tory, Eloquence, Prolocutor, nuncupative, by word of mouth.
• MVTENESS, dumb, speechless, silent, blank, tongue-tied.

The defects of speaking, as to the continuity of speech: or the prolati∣on of some particular letters.

• STUTTERING, Stammering, falter, hammer.
• LISPING.

The degrees of loudness in speaking; either without any vocal sound: or with much noise.

• WHISPERING, mutter, round in the ear.
• EXCLAMATION, Acclamation, hollow, hoot, hoop, shout, baul, cla∣mor, cry, Lure, Out-cry, roar, screech, scream, squeak, squeal, loud, lift up ones voice, set out ones throat.

• The particular kinds of speaking; referring

• To such words as we see before us; either more perfect: or imperfect.
  • READING, Lecture, Lesson, legible, peruse.
  • SPELLING.
• To the manner of ordering our voice according to musical Tunes; ei∣ther ‖ the more perfect: or the more imperfect attempt.
  • SINGING, Song, Ditty, Ballad, Carol, Canticle, Lay, Ode, Madrigal, Eclogue, canorous, Modulation, chant, Chorister, Quire:
  • CHIRPING, questing, quittle.

The several relations of speaking; when we say that to another which we expect should be repeated: or written by him.

• DICTATING, prompting, suggest.
• ENDITING.

Figures representing either words or things, and made either immedi∣ately by mens hands: or by the impression of Types.

• WRITING, penning, drawing, engrossing, Hand, Manuscript, subscribe, superscribe, inscribe, transcribe, Postscript, interline, indorse, scrawle, scrible, rude draught, Pen-man, Scribe, Writer, Scrivener, Secretary, Clerk, Note, Ticket, Docket, Short-hand, Tachygraphy, Brachygraphy, Cryptography, set ones hand, set down, take or put in writing, en∣ter into book, write out fair.
• PRINTING, Imprint, Impression, typographical, Type, Press, put in Print.