to discharge a prisoner

I guess in your small world, multiple posts mean something? Go wonder!!!

But a Dictionary of this ſort, containing, as it were, a Natural Hiſtory, requires too many hands, as well as too much time, coſt, pains, and ſagacity, ever to be hoped for; and till that be done, we muſt content our ſelves with ſuch Definitions of the Names of Subſtances, as explain the ſenſe Men uſe them in.

In English, most ordinal numbers double as fractional numbers — third, fourth, and so on — with the exception of second, whose corresponding fractional number is half.