Benjamin Norton Defoe, A New English Dictionary (1735)
Date
1735
Lexicographer
Book title
A NEW English Dictionary, CONTAINING A COLLECTION OF WORDS IN THE English Language, Properly Explain'd and Alphabetically Dispos'd. Design'd for the USE of Gentlemen, Ladies, Foreigners, and all others who desire to speak or write ENGLISH in its present Purity and Perfection.
Publication place
Westminster
Publisher
John Brindley, Olive Payne, John Jolliffe, Alexander Lyon, Charles Corbett, and Richard Wellington
Transcription source
ECCO images of the British Library copy; and the Gale Print Edition.
Text type
printed book
Genre
General English Dictionaries and Glossaries
Subject area
- place name
- proper name
Summary
There are 16,799 lexemes in the headword position. 816 word-entries concern proper and place names. I and J are one group, and U and V another. The total vocabulary in lemmatized English spellings (20,627) is 14,686 words.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
explanations: English
Extent
LEME page numbering is used. Signatures K1-6 are erroneously bound after P6v.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
number: 24
number: 24
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 16281
sample: ALLIGATION, a binding or tying together. In Arithmetick, a Rule by which such Questions are solved as relate to Quantities mixed together.
number: 16281
sample: ALLIGATION, a binding or tying together. In Arithmetick, a Rule by which such Questions are solved as relate to Quantities mixed together.
STC
T136516
