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The imperial dictionary, English, technological and scientific : adapted to the present state of literature, science, and art on the basis of Webster's English dictionary (v.1)

Ogilvie, John (1797-1867)

1850-56

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The imperial dictionary, English, technological and scientific : adapted to the present state of literature, science, and art on the basis of Webster's English dictionary (v.2)

Ogilvie, John (1797-1867)

1850-56

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The imperial dictionary, English, technological and scientific : adapted to the present state of literature, science, and art on the basis of Webster's English dictionary (v.3)

Ogilvie, John (1797-1867)

1850-56

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An universal etymological English dictionary : comprehending the derivations of the generality of words in the English tongue, either ancient or modern, from the Ancient British, Saxon, Danish, Norman and Modern French, Teutonic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, as also from the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew Languages, each in their proper characters : and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages; and terms of art relating to anatomy, botany, physick, pharmacy, surgery, chymistry, philosophy, divinity, mathematicks, grammar, logick, rhetorick, musick, heraldry, maritime affairs, military discipline, horsemanship, hunting, hawking, fowling, fishing, gardening, husbandry, handicrafts, confectionary, carving, cookery, &c. : together with a large collection and explication of words and phrases us’d in our ancient statutes, charters, writs, old records, and processes at law ; and the etymology and interpretation of the proper names of men, women, and remarkable places in Great Britain : also the dialects of our different counties. Containing many thousand words more than either Harris, Philips, Kersey, or any English Dictionary before extant. To which is added a collection of our most common proverbs, with their explication and illustration. The whole work compil’d and methodically digested, as well for the entertainment of the curious, as the information of the ignorant, and for the benefit of young students, artificers, tradesmen and foreigners, who are desirous thorowly to understand what they speak, read, or write

Bailey, N (1742)

MDCXXVIII [1728]

Indexed in: ESTC,

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Lexicon technicum, or, An universal English dictionary of arts and sciences : explaining not only the terms of art but the arts themselves

Harris, John (1667?-1719)

1704

Three of the plates are each accompanied by a leaf with descriptive letterpress. No foliation or pagination. Sig. 5A3 signed 5B, 5Ll signed L.