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Universal Etymological English Dictionary (page 2/2)

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Pictures from Nathan Bailey’s Universal Etymological English Dictionary from 1736 (I have the second edition.

You can also read the old dictionary entries that I have typed up from this book.

Title: Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Author: Bailey, Nathan

City: London

Date: 1736

Total items: 5

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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...] [$]

Title Page: Bailey’s Universal Etymological Dictionary

The title page of the dictionary: [more...] [$]

air (a)

Air [in Chymical Writers] is expressed by one of these Characters... [more...] [$]

air (b)

Air [in Chymical Writers] is expressed by one of these Characters... [more...] [$]

Snow

The 1736 definition for Snow includes explanations of why snow is white and why the sharp points of snowflakes don’t hurt when they land on our skin. [more...] [$]

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