49. My second is a useful appendage to my first, and my whole is to abridge.
50.
I am composed of 21 letters.
My 4, 9, 12 is a Greek preposition.
My 7, 5, 8, 14 a vessel used in the Scotch sea.
My 17, 13, 21 is entity.
My 18, 19, 3, 10 is a bed formed by birds.
My 1, 11, 15 is to dip.
My 20, 6, 2, 16 is to tarnish.
My whole is want of symmetry.
51. A squirrel, finding nine ears of corn in a box, took from it, daily, three ears; how many days was he in removing the corn from the box?
52. My first is found in an oyster; my second is possessed by the nobility; every house contains my third; my whole no one applies to himself.
53. What word is that, of three letters, which, read backward, indicates the quality of many who participate in it?
54.
In my first, relations most generally find
An interest of a peculiar kind;
My second, an adverb of humble degree,
Combined with my first names a beautiful tree.
TOWNS IN NEW YORK.
55. A color and a mineral.
56. An element and a game.
57. Part of a gun and a liquor.
58. An animal.
59. A color and part of a house.
60. A hole and a heap.