Catalog

designed as a guide in the study of the orthography pronunciation and meaning of common English words

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in which the words are deduced from their originals and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers To which are prefixed a history of the language and an English grammar

or A more compleat universal etymological English dictionary than any extant Illustrated with near five hundred cuts Likewise a collection and explanation of English proverbs; also of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters statutes Also mythology To which is added a collection of proper names of persons and places in Great-Britain &c

intended to exhibit I The origin affinities and primary signification of English words as far as they have been ascertained II The genuine orthography and pronunciation of words according to general usage or to just principles of analogy III Accurate and discriminating definitions with numerous authorities and illustrations To which are prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin history and connection of the languages of Western Asia and of Europe and a concise grammar of the English language

With an appendix containing various useful tables Mainly abridged from the latest edition of the quarto dictionary of Noah Webster

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

containing all the words in general use with their significations accurately explained and the sound of each syllable clearly expressed the whole interspersed with critical and philological observations to which will be prefixed Mr Walker's principles of English pronunciation a nomenclature of the names of distinguished persons and places of antiquity a chronological table of remarkable occurrences with considerable additions

fully conjugated in all the tenses in a new easy-to-learn format alphabetically arranged

a photographer's alphabet of animals

containing the whole vocabulary of the first edition in two volumes quarto; the entire corrections and improvements of the second edition in two volumes royal octavo; to which is prefixed an introductory dissertation on the origin history and connection of the languages of western Asia and Europe with an explanation of the principles on which languages are formed

a compilation of aquatic collective nouns

English technological and scientific; adapted to the present state of literature science and art; on the basis of Webster's English Dictionary comprising all words purely English

containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) Also an explication of hard and technical words or terms in all arts and sciences Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters statutes writs Also the theogony theology and mythology of the Egyptians Greeks Romans etc To which is added an additional collection of proper names Vol II