COMPOUNDING.
Reading edition
COMPOUNDING.
1. In compounding words the International Dictionary will be followed, with but few exceptions.
2. The following words are so common in the work of this office that the usage of many years will be continued:
post-office
court-house
custom-house
light-house
navy-yard
attorney-general, etc.
consul-general
vice-consul
lieutenant-general, etc.
sergeant-major
quartermaster-sergeant, etc.
color-corporal
lieutenant-commander
rear-admiral
flag-officer
judge-advocate-general
provost-marshal
provost-marshal-general
3. Make one word of horsepower, candlepower, and hundredweight, and use adjectively as laid down in the succeeding paragraph.
4. Compound adjectives take the hyphen: A 2-foot rule, 10-horsepower engine, 16-candlepower light, 6-hundredweight load, many-colored coat, light-armed soldier, asked-for opinion, fine-grained wood, light-green color, etc.
5. Compound the following:
mid-channel
double-loader
single-loader
pleuro-pneumonia
national-bank notes
re-treat (to treat again)
ante-mortem
micro-organism
micro-millimeter
micro-photograph
acre-foot (plural acre-feet)
foot-acre (plural foot-acres)
pound-foot (plural pound-feet)
post-mortem
foot-pound (plural foot-pounds)
foot-poundal (plural foot-poundals)
foot-second (plural foot-seconds)
second-foot (plural second-feet)
foot-ton (plural foot-tons)
pound-degree (plural pound-degrees)
6. Follow compounding, etc., in the appended list of fishes and fishery appliances:
alewife
amber-fish
angel-fish
bag seine
bass net
bellows-fish
black bass
black-cod
blackfish
black perch
blue crab
bluefish
boat fishermen
boat-steerer
bomb-gun
bottom-feeding fish
bowhead whale
boxfish
brook trout
buffalo-fish
bullhead
bull’s-eye mackerel
buoy line
butter-fish
candle-fish
catboat
catfish
cigar-fish
coast line
codfish
codfish fishery
cod fishery
cod fishing
cod line
crampfish
crawfish
crayfish
crayfish pot
cultus-cod
cutting-in (of a whale)
datefish
dealfish
devil-fish
dingey
doctor-fish
dogfish
dollar-fish
drag net
drag seine
drift net
drumfish
fat-head
fiddler-crab
finback whale
fish-culture
fish eggs
fishing-camp
fishing-ground
fishing-place
fish roe
fish-wheel
flake-yard
flatfish
flying-fish
food-fish
frostfish
garfish
gill net
gill-net fishing
goldfish
goosefish
green crab
greenfish
ground line
hagfish
hair seal
hand lance
harbor porpoise
harpoon gun
hermit-crab
hickory-jack
hogfish
hoop net
horsefish
horse-mackerel
horseshoe-crab
houndfish
humpback whale
jackfish
jelly-fish
jewfish
jonah-crab
kelp-crab
kelpfish
kingfish
lady-crab
lady-fish
land-crab
landlocked salmon
live-car
lobster pot
lumpfish
mollusk
monkfish
moonfish
mossbunker
mud-crab
mudfish
muskellunge
mussel-crab
mutton-fish
nigger-fish
nursefish
oyster bed
oyster-crab
paddle-fish
pan-fish
parrot-fish
peacock-fish
pigfish
pilot-fish
pipefish
purse seine
ratfish
red crab
red-eye
redfish
red grouper
red-horse
red perch
red snapper
rock-bass
rock-cod
rock-crab
rockfish
rock lobster
rose-fish
round-fish
rowboat
rudder-fish
salmon canning
salmon-canning industry
salmon trout
sand-crab
sawfish
scallop
sea bass
sea-cucumber
sea-horse
seal oil
seal skin
sea moss
sea mullet
sea-urchin
seaweed
seine-haul
seine-reach
set net
sheat-fish
sheepshead
shellfish
shore-crab
skipjack
smelt net
snake-fish
snapping mackerel
soft crab
Spanish mackerel
spearfish
spider-crab
squeteague
squirrel-fish
starfish
steelhead
stingray
stone-crab
striped bass
sulphur-bottom whale
sunfish
swordfish
tautog
threadfish
tilefish
toadfish
tomcod
trammel net
trawl basket
trawling-ground
treefish
trigger-fish
trumpet-fish
trying-out (of a whale)
try-works
tubfish
weakfish
whaleboat
whalebone
whale line
whistling buoy
whitefish
wolf-fish
yellow-tail
7. Fractions, when spelled, will be compounded: One twenty-first, one-fifth, eighty-one one-hundredths, one one-hundredth, the one-hundredth part.
8. The words “well,” “so,” and “ill” will be used as follows: He is an ill-tempered man; he is very ill tempered. Well-meant intentions; his intentions are well meant. His so-called poem; his poem (so called) is, etc. But generally adverbs are not compounded with adjectives which they qualify: A divinely inspired book; a finely modeled statue; a nicely kept lawn.