Bill (and others),
     For what it's worth---and I'm not sure it's worth much---I have a Murray 
definition of noun as "the name of any thing that exists, or of which we have 
any notion."   Lowth wrote "the Name of a thing; of whatever we conceive in 
any way to subsist, or of which we have any notion."
     Maybe this comment from Otto Jespersen is worth a lot more:   "If there 
is one thing I dislike in grammar, it is definitions (of parts of speech) too 
often met with in our textbooks.   They are neither exhaustive nor true; they 
have not, and cannot have, the precision and clearness of the definitions 
found in textbooks of mathematics . . . .   And thus we might go on to the 
definitions found even in the best grammars: they are unsatisfactory, all of them, 
and I do not think they are necessary."
The English Journal [!!!], 1924

Ed Schuster


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