This banner text can have markup. Search the history of over billion web pages on the Internet. Life in London. Warlde of Wordes. Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words. Lexicon Bajatrcnicum. May hew. London Labour and the London D 00 r. For instance, Grose? To save repitition of the titles of the works given in the foregoing list, the system has been here adopted of simply giving to the quotations the date and name of the author, bearing in mind all the time that the dates may vary.
Farmer compiled over , quotations in his dictionary of slang. Wherever these were apt they have been used in this lexicon. A lexicographer who compiled English dictionary issued in X? Y5 a Bailey Nathan, or Nathaniel. It was a great improvement on all previous vocabularies , and has often been republished.
It really formed the basis of Johnson great work, and was the foundation of other wprks of the kinds It ran to twenty- four editions. Barrere A. Argot and Slang. A new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions , slang terms and flash phrases used i in the high and low life of old and new Paris, Published in London in Born, ; died, An American antiquarian and historian. Hawes at the Rose in Ludgate-street , P. The compiler of the dictionary has never been identified beyond the initials B.
Grose and others pilfered B. Colonel Cleland's dissipation left his son penniless; but he had, happily, provided Mm with a good education, which proved of great advantage in the way of getting a fair government position in the Indies.
This was followed in by "Memoirs of a Coxcomb," a work of greater merit. Cleland' s first work, however, was so licentious that he was summoned before the privy council, where he pleaded his poverty as an excuse. How ill Cleland was equipped for philological studies may be gathered from the spelling of a pamphlet issued by him in , "Specimen of an Etimologicai Vocabulary or Essay by means of the Anilitic Method to retrieve the Ancient Celtic. One edition was published in , under the title "Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure.
