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 explain'd, but accented on their proper syllables, to prevent a vicious pronunciation; and mark'd 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 t

People / Organizations

• Thomas Dyche (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Warwick-Lane, Amen-Corner, MDCCXXXVII. [1737] The second edition, with additions.; ..

Added name

Pardon, William.

Publication year

1737

ESTC No.

N20236

Grub Street ID

9633

Description

[892]p. ; 8°.

Note

With a final advertisement leaf

Price in square brackets: (Price 6s.)

Uncontrolled note

Coll. = A4, b4, B-5S4, 5T2