Words are articulate sounds, used by common consent as signs of ideas, or
notions.
There are in English nine Sorts of Words, or, as they are commonly
called, Parts of Speech.
1. The ARTICLE, prefixed to substantives, when they are common names
of things, to point them out, and to shew how far their signification
extends.
2. The SUBSTANTIVE, or NOUN, being the name of any thing conceived to
subsist, or of which we have any notion.