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Lexicons of Early Modern English (LEME) is a historical database of monolingual, bilingual, and polyglot dictionaries, lexical encyclopedias, hard-word glossaries, spelling lists, and lexically-valuable treatises surviving in print or manuscript from about 1475 to 1755.

LEME was originally co-published by the University of Toronto Press Inc. and the University of Toronto Libraries. Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

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The following materials in LEME are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license: All files provided on the LEME website (http://leme.library.utoronto.ca), and the XML encoded texts of lexical works, made available through the TSpace institutional repository.

You are free to do as follows to these uncopyrighted materials as long as the editor is properly attributed: to share and adapt them; to copy and redistribute them in any medium or format; and to remix, transform, and build upon them for any purpose, even commercially.

Please give credit for your use of all LEME materials to Lexicons of Early Modern English, ed. Ian Lancashire (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018). https://leme.library.utoronto.ca

LEME is a research publication, and content, materials and features may be added, changed, or removed without notice. LEME is provided on an "as-is" basis. Use of LEME is at the user's sole risk.

Ian Lancashire, Editor.