The English dictionary: or, An interpreter of hard English words. : Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young scholars, clerks, merchants; also strangers of any nation, to the understanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writing.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London,
Printed by A. Miller, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls Church-yard,
1650.
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| Edition: | The ninth ed., rev. and enlarged. |
| Series: | Early English books online.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Item Description: | Dedication signed: Henry Cockeram. First edition published in 1623. Part 2 may be called a dictionary for translating plain English into fine English (compare Dict. nat. biog.) The third part, "treating of gods and goddesses, men and women, boyes and maids, giants and devils, birds and beasts, ..." Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text. Reproduction of the original in the British Library. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ([335] pages) |