Universal Etymological Dictionary
Pictures from Nathan Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary from 1726 (I have the second edition, I think; it is a large quarto).
You can also read the old dictionary entries that I have typed up from this book.
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Front Cover
Like many antiquarian books from the eighteenth century, the front cover of Nathan Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary is half-leather; that is, the spine and the fore-edge corners of the cover are bound in leather. If the corners are not covered with leather, the book is [...] [more...] |
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air (a)
Air [in Chymical Writers] is expressed by one of these Characters... [more...]
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air (b)
Air [in Chymical Writers] is expressed by one of these Characters... [more...]
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