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 [etc etc] and also a brief and clear explication of all difficult words derived from any of the aforesaid languages 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 Containing many thousand words than any English dictionary before extant to which is added a collection of our most common proverbs
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