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1 1 2 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 3 MOBY-DICK; or, THE WHALE. By Herman Melville. 4 5 2 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:22,000 7 ETYMOLOGY. 8 9 3 10 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:29,500 11 (Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School.) 12 13 4 14 00:00:29,500 --> 00:00:37,000 15 The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. 16 17 5 18 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,000 19 He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, 20 21 6 22 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:47,500 23 mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. 24 25 7 26 00:00:47,500 --> 00:00:55,000 27 He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality. 28 29 8 30 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:03,000 31 “While you take in hand to school others, and to teach them by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongue, 32 33 9 34 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:10,000 35 leaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almost alone maketh up the signification of the word, 36 37 10 38 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:17,000 39 you deliver that which is not true.” —Hackluyt. 40 41 11 42 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:25,500 43 “WHALE. * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; 44 45 12 46 00:01:25,500 --> 00:01:34,000 47 for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” —Webster’s Dictionary. 48 49 13 50 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:42,000 51 “WHALE. * * * It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger. Wallen; 52 53 14 54 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:51,000 55 A.S. Walw-ian, to roll, to wallow.” —Richardson’s Dictionary.