CONTAINING
Not only the Words and their Explication; but their Etymologies from the Antient British, Teutonick, Dutch (Low and High), Old Saxon, German, Danish, Swedish, Norman and Modern French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Greek, Hebrew &c. each in its proper Character.
ALSO
Explaining hard and technical Words, or Terms of Art, in all the ARTS, SCIENCES, and MYSTERIES following. Together with ACCENTS directing to their proper Pronuntiation, shewing both the Orthography, and Orthoepia of the English Tongue,
VIZ. IN
| AGRICULTURE, ALGEBRA, ANATOMY, ARCHITECTURE, ARITHMETICK, ASTROLOGY, ASTRONOMY, BOTANICKS, CATOPTRICKS, CHYMISTRY, CHIROMANCY, CHIRURGERY, CONFECTIONARY, COOKERY, COSMOGRAPHY, DIALLING, DIOPTRICKS, ETHICKS, FISHING, FORTIFICATION, FOWLING, GARDENING, GAUGING, GEOGRAPHY, GEOMETRY, GRAMMAR, GUNNERY, HANDICRAFTS, HAWKING, HERALDRY, HORSEMANSHIP, HUNTING, | HUSBANDRY, HYDRAULICKS, HYDROGRAPHY, HYDROSTATICS, LAW, LOGICK, MARITIME AND MILITARY AFFAIRS, MATHEMATICKS, MECHANICKS, MERCHANDIZE, METAPHYSICKS, METEROLOGY, NAVIGATION, OPTICKS, OTACOUSTICKS, PAINTING, PERSPECTIVE, PHARMACY, PHILOSOPHY, PHYSICK, PHYSIOGNOMY, PYROTECHNY, RHETORICK, SCULPTURE, STATICKS, STATUARY, SURVEYING, THEOLOGY AND TRIGONOMETRY. |
Illustrated with near Five Hundred CUTS, for Giving a clear Idea of those Figures, not so well apprehended by verbal Description.
LIKEWISE
A Collection and Explanation of English Proverbs; also of Words and Phrases us'd in our ancient Charters, Statutes, Writs, Old Records and Processes at Law.
A L S O
The Iconology, Mythology, Theogony, and Theology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. being an Account of their Deities, Solemnities, either Religious or Civil, their Divinations, Auguries, Oracles, Hieroglyphicks, and many other curious Matters, necessary to be understood, especially by the Readers of English POETRY.
To which is added,
A Collection of Proper Names of Persons and
Places in Great-Britain, &c. with their Etymologies and
Explications.
The Whole digested into an Alphabetical Order, not only for the Information of the Ignorant, but the Entertainment of the Curious; and also the benefit of Artificers, Tradesmen, Young Students and Foreigners.
A WORK useful for such as would UNDERSTAND what they READ and HEAR, SPEAK what they MEAN, and WRITE true ENGLISH.
By N. Bailey, filologos
Assisted in the Mathematical Part by G.
Gordon; in the Botanical by P.
Miller; and in the Etymological, &c. by T. Lediard, Gent. Professor of the Modern
Languages in Lower Germany.
Excerpts As Selected And Transcribed By Liam Quin, liamquin at interlog dot com, Written and Marked Up in SGML, and thence Converted Most Diligently to HTML, Between 1990 and 1996.