Nathan Bailey, Dictionarium Rusticum et Urbanicum (1704)
Date
1704
Lexicographer
Book title
Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: Or, A Dictionary Of all Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing. Containing more particularly The whole Art of Gardening, viz. Sowing, Setting, Grafting, Transplanting, Salleting, &c. with the Names, Descriptions, and Uses, of all Kinds of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits. The Raising and Ordering of all manner of Forest and Fruit-Trees, and Dwarfs. Agriculture in the various Parts of it, and the modern Improvements made therein. The Gentleman's Recreation; or the Arts of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Ferreting, Cock-Fighting, &c. including (besides the several Animals) the Tackling, Nets, and different Instruments used therein. The Breeding, Feeding, and Managing of all sorts of Cattle, as also of Bees, Poultry, and Singing-Birds; with all their respective Diseases, and Cures. The preparing of all Sorts of English Liquors, common Eatables and Drinkables; with the several parts of Country Housewifry. The Digging, Refining, &c. of Minerals; Salt, and Sugar-Works; and the Arts of making Brick, Birdlime, Gunpowder, Shot, &c. Merchandizing, Trading, and Handicraft Terms and Instruments. The Produce, Manufactory, &c. of the Counties of England, and of Foreign Parts. The ancient Customs, and natural Rarities of England. Illustrated with Cuts of all sorts of Nets, Traps, Engines, &c.
Publication place
London
Publisher
J. Nicholson
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
- agriculture
- cooking
- fishing
- hawking and hunting
- herbal
- mining
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: DRIFT of the Forrest; is an exact view and examination taken at certain times, as occasion shall serve, to know what Beasts are there; that none be common there, but such as have Right, and that the Forrest be not overcharg'd with the Beasts of Foreigners.
sample: DRIFT of the Forrest; is an exact view and examination taken at certain times, as occasion shall serve, to know what Beasts are there; that none be common there, but such as have Right, and that the Forrest be not overcharg'd with the Beasts of Foreigners.
STC
T138447
Other editions
1704 (ESTC T138448), 1717 (ESTC T138449; second edition),
1726 (ESTC T138450; third edition in two vols.)
1726 (ESTC T138450; third edition in two vols.)
Criticisms
Simpson, John A. "Nathaniel Bailey and the Search for a Lexicographical Style." Lexicographers and their Works. Ed. G. James. n.p.: University of Exeter Press, n.d. 181-91.
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