A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

4ONTAINING THE PRONUNCIATION, ETYMOLOGY, AND EXPLANATION OF ALL WORDS At THORIZED BY EMINENT WRITERS;

To which are added, a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, and an Accented List of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names

BY ALEXANDER REID, A. My Rector of the Circus School, Edinburgh.

With a Critical Preface, by Henry Reep, Professor of English Literature in the University ef : Pennsylvania, and an Appendix, showing the Pronunciation of nearly 3000 * the most important Geographical Names. One volume, l2m-

of nearly 600 pages, bound in Leather. Price $1

Ainong the wants of our time was a good dictionary of our own language, especially adapted for academies and schools. The books which have long been in use were of little value to the junior students, being too concise in the definitions, and immethodical in the arrangement

eid’s English Dictionary was compiled expressly to develop the precise analogies ana variou properties of the authorized words in general use, by the standard authors and orators who use our vernacular tongue. ee .

Exclusive of the large number of proper names which are appended, this Dictionary includes four especial improvements—and when their essential value to the student is considered, the sterling character of the work as a hand-book of our language will be instantly perceived.

The primitive word is distinguished by a larger type; and when there are any derivatives from it, they follow in alphabetical order, and the part of speech is appended, thus furnishing a complete classification of all the connected analogous words of the same species. __ r

With this facility to comprehend accurately the determinate meaning of the English word, 1s conjoined a rich illustration for the linguist. The derivation of all the primitive words is distinctly given, and the phrases of the languages whence they are deduced, whether composite or simple; so that the student of foreign languages, both ancient and modern, by a reference to any word, can ascertain the source whence it has been adopted into our own form of speech. ue is a great acquisition to the person who is anxious to use words in their utmost clearness of meaning.

To these advantages is subjoined a Vocabulary of the Roots of English Words, which is of peculiar value to the collegian. The fifty pages which it includes, furnish the linguist with a wide-spread field of research, equally amusing and instructive. There is also added an Ac cented List, to the number of fifteen thousand, of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names.