Riders dictionarie : corrected and augmented with the addition of many hundred words both out of the law, and out of the Latine, French, and other languages, such as were and are with us in common use, but never printed till now, to the perfecting of the worke. The barbarous words which were many hundreds are expunged, to the helpe of young scholars, which before they used in stead of good words. In the end of the dictionarie you shall finde certaine generall heads of birds, colours, dogs, fishes, hawkes, hearbs, numbers, stones, trees, weights. Lastly, the names of the chiefe places and townes in England, Scotland, and Ireland, &c. which were never in Riders before. Also hereunto is annexed certaine tables of weights and measures, the valuation of auncient and moderne coines; as also a table of the Hebrew, Greek, and Latine measures, reduced to our English standard and assise ... Whereunto is joyned a dictionarie etymologicall, deriving each word from his proper fountaine, the first that ever was extant i

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rider, John, 1562-1632
Other Authors: Holyoake, Francis, 1567-1653
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : imprinted by Felix Kingston for John Waterson, 1649.
Series:Early English books online.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description:Rider's part was first published in 1589 with title: "Bibliotheca scholastica, a double dictionarie"; Holyoake's revision was first published in 1606.
"Dictionarium etymologicum latinum" has separate dated title page, register and pagination.
Signatures: A⁴ ² A-2C 2D² ³2A-4Q 5A-L 5M⁴.
Imperfect; ³2R lacking.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Physical Description:1 online resource ([1614] pages)