DICTIONARIES...
Ancient or antique. Some of these dictionaries or their reprints are available in local libraries; some are available on line via the links below. They are listed here for reference by members of the OLD-ENGLISH mailing list and other researchers.
- 1530 Palsgrave, Jehan
- Dictionary
- 1543 Traheron
- The most excellent workes of Chirurgerye, made and set forth by maister
Iohn Vigon. Medical.
Online at Patterweb
- 1548 William Turner
- The Nature of herbes in Greke, Latin, Englishe, Duche & Frenche wyth the commune names that Herbaries and Apotecaries vse.
Online at Patterweb
- 1582 Richard Mulcaster
- The first part of the Elementarie which entreateth of right writing of our English tung. Word-list.
Online at Patterweb
- 1587 Thomas Thomas
- Dictionarium Linguae Latinae et Anglicanae. Latin/English
Online at Patterweb
- 1596 Edmund Coote
- English Schoole-maister. Grammar and hard-word dictionary
Online at Patterweb
- 1604-1617 Robert Cawdrey
- A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the understanding of hard usuall English wordes.
Online at Patterweb
- 1607 Cowell, John
- Interpreter of Signification of Words
- 1616 John Bullokar
- An English Expositor: teaching the interpretation of the hardest words in our language
Online at Patterweb
- 1623 Henry Cockeram
- English Dictionarie: or, an interpreter of hard English words
Online at Patterweb
- 1653 Culpepper, Nicholas
- The Complete Herbal
On line at
Bibliomania
- 1656 Thomas Blount
- Glossographia
Online at Patterweb
- 1657 John Garfield
- Physical Dictionary (scientific)
Online at Patterweb
- 1703 Hickes, George
- Thesaurus
- 1713 Coles, Elisha
- English Dictionary
- 1717 Blount, Thomas
- Law Dictionary and Glossary
- 1728 Chambers, Ephraim
- Dictionary of Arts and Sciences
- 1740 Dyche, Thomas
- English Dictionary
- 1749 Bailey, Nathaniel
- Etymological English Dictionary
- 1755 Johnson, Samuel
- Dictionary of the English Language
- 1775 Fenning, Daniel
- Royal English Dictionary
- 1778 Elworthy, Frederick
- Specimens of English Dialect
- 1788 Marshall, William
- Cleveland Glossary
- 1790 Sheridan, Thomas
- Complete Dictionary of the English Language
- 1806 Brown, Reverend John
- Dictionary of the Holy Bible
- 1811 Hooper, Robert
- New Medical Dictionary
- 1811 Grose, Francis
- Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- 1811 Grose, Francis
- Provincial Glossary
- 1813 Coxe, Richard
- Pronouncing Dictionary
- 1814 Grose, Francis
- Provincial Glossary Supplement
- 1817 Coxe, John
- Medical Dictionary
- 1818 Jones, Stephen
- Pronoucing Dictionary
- 1825 Brockett, John
- Glossary of North County Words
- 1829 Hunter, Joseph
- Hallamshire Glossary
- 1835 Walker, John
- Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language
- 1838 Holloway, William
- Dictionary of Provincialisms
- 1839 Bouvier, John
- Law Dictionary
On line
- 1844 Dunglison, Dr. Robley
- Dictionary of Medical Science
- 1848 Barclay, James
- Dictionary of the English Language
- 1855 Halliwell, James
- Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms
- 1855 Robinson, Francis
- Yorkshire Glossary
- 1857 Wright, Thomas
- Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English
Reprint at LDS Library, Salt Lake City
- 1858 Simmonds, P. L.
- Dictionary of Trade Products
- 1859 Nare, Robert
- Glossary of the Works of English Authors
- 1859 Hoblyn, Richard
- Medical Dictionary
- 1862 Robinson, C. Clough
- Dialect of Leeds
- 1865 Ogilvie, John
- Comprehensive English Dictionary
- 1867 Smyth, Admiral William
- Sailor's Word-book
- 1867 Jamieson, John
- Etymological Scottish Dictionary
- 1868 Huntley, Reverend Richard
- Glossary of the Cotswold Dialect
- 1869 Jennings, James
- Dialect of Somersetshire
- 1874 Knight, Edward
- Dictionary of Practical Mechanics
- 1876 Robinson, C. Clough
- Glossary of Mid-Yorkshire
- 1877 Chambers, W & R
- Eytmological English Dictionary
- 1877 Leigh, Edgerton
- Dialect of Cheshire
- 1878 Wedgwood, Hensleigh
- Dictionary of English Etymology
- 1879 Jackson, Georgina
- Shropshire Word-Book
- 1881 Worcester, Joseph
- Dictionary of the English Language
- 1881 Davies, T. Lewis
- Supplemental English Glossary
- 1884 Stormonth, Reverend James
- Dictionary of the English Language
- 1887 Hotten, J. C.
- Slang Dictionary
- 1888 Addy, Sidney
- Sheffield Glossary of Words
- 1889 Whitney, William
- Century Dictionary
- 1890 Stroud
- [Judicial] Dictionary of Words and Phrases
- 1893 Dartnell & Goddard
- Wiltshire Glossary
- 1894 Hunter, Robert
- Encyclopaedic Dictionary
- 1896-1905 Wright, Joseph
- English Dialect Dictionary
- 1897 Annandale, Charles
- Concise Dictionary of the English Language
- 1897 Lyons, Daniel
- Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 Brewer, Ebenezer
- Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
On line at Bibliomania
- 1901 Taylor, Francis
- Folk-Speech of South Lancashire
- 1902 Phin, John
- Shakespeare Cyclopaedia and Glossary
- 1903 --
- Licensed Traders' Dictionary
- 1904 Farmer & Henley
- Slang and It's Analogs
- 1911 Onions, C. T.
- Oxford Shakespeare Glossary
- 1911 Warrack, Alexander
- Scots Dialectic Dictionary
- 1914 Skeats, Walter
- Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words
- 1924 Wilkinson, John
- Leeds Dialect Glossary and Lore
- 1928 Annandale, Charles
- New Gresham Dictionary
- 1929 Harman
- Buckinghamshire Dialect
- 1955 Shipley, Joseph
- Dictionary of Early English
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