A new general English dictionary; peculiarly calculated for the use and improvement of such as are unacquainted with the learned languages. Wherein the difficult words, and technical terms made use of in anatomy, architecture, arithmetick, algebra, astronomy, botany, chymistry, divinity, gardening, grammar, hawking, heraldry, history, horsemanship, hunting, husbandry, law, logick, mathematicks, mechanicks, milit, affairs, musick, navigation, painting, poetry, rhetorick, sculpture, surgery, &c. Are not only fully explained, but accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation; and marked with initial letters, to denote the part of speech to which each word peculiarly belongs. To which is prefixed, a compendious English grammar, with general rules for the ready formation of one part of speech from another; by the due application whereof, such as understand English only, may be able to write as correctly and elegantly, as those who have been some years conversant in the

People / Organizations

• Thomas Dyche (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for Catherine and Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun on Ludgate-Hill, MDCCLXV. [1765] The twelfth edition, with the addition of the several market towns in England and Wales, giving a general description of the places, their situations, market days, government, manufactures, number of representatives sent to Parliament, distance from London, both in computed and measured miles, &c.; ..

Added name

Pardon, William.

Publication year

1765

ESTC No.

N20233

Grub Street ID

9630

Description

[912]p. ; 8°.

Note

Price in square brackets: (Price Six Shillings.)

Uncontrolled note

Verify pagination and add collation