01847nam 2200361Ia 450 99638752780331620200824132417.0(CKB)4940000000086930(EEBO)2240901192(OCoLC)ocm51617877e(OCoLC)51617877(EXLCZ)99494000000008693020030210d1650 uy 0engurbn||||a|bb|The English dictionary: or, An interpreter of hard English words[electronic resource] Enabling as well ladies and gentlewomen, young scholars, clerks, merchants; also strangers of any nation, to the understanding of the more difficult authors already printed in our language, and the more speedy attaining of an elegant perfection of the English tongue, both in reading, speaking and writingThe ninth ed., rev. and enlarged.By H.C. gent.LondonPrinted by A. Miller, and are to be sold by Andrew Crooke, at the Green-Dragon in St Pauls Church-yard1650[335] pDedication signed: Henry Cockeram.First edition published in 1623. Part 2 may be called a dictionary for translating plain English into fine English (cf. Dict. nat. biog.) The third part, "treating of gods and goddesses, men and women, boyes and maids, giants and devils, birds and beasts, ..."Imperfect: tightly bound with some loss of text.Reproduction of the original in the British Library.eebo-0018English languageDictionariesEarly works to 1700English languageCockeram Henryfl. 1650.1006775EAEEAEBOOK996387527803316The English dictionary, or, An interpreter of hard English words2322147UNISA