Philip Miller, The Gardeners Dictionary (1732)
Date
1732
Lexicographer
Book title
The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Methods of Cultivating and Improving The Kitchen, Fruit and Flower Garden. As Also, The Physick, Garden, Wilderness, Conservatory, and Vineyard, According to the Practice of the Most eEperienc'd Gardeners of the Present Age. Intersperss'd with The History of the Plants, the Characters of each Genus, and the Names of all the particular Species, in Latin, and English; and an Explanation of all the Terms used in Botany and Gardening. Together with Accounts of the Nature and Use of Barometers, Thermometers, and Hygrometers proper for Gardeners; And of the Origin, Causes, and Nature of Meteors, and the particular Influences of Air, Earth, Fire and Water upon Vegetation, according to the best natural philosophers. Adom'd with copper plates. By Philip Miller, gardener to the botanick garden at Chelsea, and F.R.S..
Publication place
Dublin
Printer
S. Powell
Publisher
Richard Gunne in Caple-street, George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith in Dame's-street, and John Smith and William Bruce on the Blind-Key
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
architecture
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: UMBELLA, an Umbell, is the Extremity of a Stalk or Branch, divided into several Pedicles, or Rays, beginning from the same Point, and opened in such a manner as to form an inverted Cone. When the Pedicles, into which the Stalk is divided, are sub-divided into others of the same Form, upon which the Flowers or Fruits are dispos'd, the first Order is call'd Rays, the second Pedicles. That Umbel which consists of Pedicles only, is call'd a Simple Umbel; that which is compos'd both of Rays and Pedicles, is call'd a Compound Umbel.
sample: UMBELLA, an Umbell, is the Extremity of a Stalk or Branch, divided into several Pedicles, or Rays, beginning from the same Point, and opened in such a manner as to form an inverted Cone. When the Pedicles, into which the Stalk is divided, are sub-divided into others of the same Form, upon which the Flowers or Fruits are dispos'd, the first Order is call'd Rays, the second Pedicles. That Umbel which consists of Pedicles only, is call'd a Simple Umbel; that which is compos'd both of Rays and Pedicles, is call'd a Compound Umbel.
STC
N018262
Other editions
1733 (ESTC N018273; 2nd edn.)
1735 (ESTC T061256 & T061256; 2nd edn., 2 vols.) 1735
1737 (ESTC T059422; 3rd edn.)
1740 (ESTC T061255; 4th edn., 2 vols.)
1741 (ESTC T135895; 5th edn.)
1748 (ESTC T059418, T059418 and T059418; 3rd corrected edn. in 3 vols.)
1735 (ESTC T061256 & T061256; 2nd edn., 2 vols.) 1735
1737 (ESTC T059422; 3rd edn.)
1740 (ESTC T061255; 4th edn., 2 vols.)
1741 (ESTC T135895; 5th edn.)
1748 (ESTC T059418, T059418 and T059418; 3rd corrected edn. in 3 vols.)
