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 t

People / Organizations

• C. Bathurs ("printed for")
• Thomas Dyche (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for C. Bathurs J. Rivington and Sons, J. Hinton, S. Crowder, T. Caslon, T. Longman, B. Law, H. Baldwin, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, R. Baldwin, J. Wilkie, W. Flexney, J. Johnson, H. Woodfall, W. Woodfall, W. Richardson, W. Goldsmith, J. Knox, W. Stuart, P. Newbery, T. Beecroft, Fielding and Walker, and W. Lane, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Publication year

1777-1777

ESTC No.

T113321

Grub Street ID

165266

Description

[912]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Price from imprint: price Six Shillings [and 19 others in London].