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MOBY DICK;
OR
THE WHALE
by
Herman Melville
A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication
 
 Moby Dick; or The Whale
by Herman Melville
 
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 Moby Dick; or The Whale
by Herman Melville
 ,
the Pennsylvania State University,
 Electronic Classics Series
, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable DocumentFile produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.Cover Design: Jim ManisCopyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University
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3Herman Melville
MOBY DICK;
OR
THE WHALE
by
Herman Melville
ETYMOLOGY.
(Supplied by a Late Consumptive Usher to a Grammar School)The pale Usher—threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; Isee him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and gram-mars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished withall the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He lovedto dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality.“While you take in hand to school others, and to teachthem by what name a whale-fish is to be called in our tongueleaving out, through ignorance, the letter H, which almostalone maketh the signification of the word, you deliver thatwhich is not true.” —
 Hackluyt 
“
Whale
. ... Sw. and Dan.
 Hval
. This animal is named fromroundness or rolling; for in Dan.
 Hvalt 
is arched or vaulted.”—
Webster’s Dictionary
“
Whale
. ... It is more immediately from the Dut. and Ger.
wallen
;
a.s.
 
walw-ian
, to roll, to wallow.” —
 Richardson’s Dictionary
KETOS,GREEK.CETUS,LATIN.WHOEL,ANGLO-SAXON.HVALT,DANISH.WAL,DUTCH.HWAL,SWEDISH.WHALE,ICELANDIC.
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