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, Hawkings, 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 i

People / Organizations

• Thomas Dyche (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for Richard Ware, at the Bible and Sun in Warwick-Lane, Amen-Correr, MDCCXL. [1740]

Publication year

1740-1740

ESTC No.

T113329

Grub Street ID

165274

Description

[912]p. ; 8⁰

Note

Price from imprint: price 6s.

Uncontrolled note

Coll.: A4A-5X4