to discharge a prisoner

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.

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

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.