John Ray, A Collection of English Words not Generally Used (1691)

Full Text
EEBO/TCP
Date
1691
Lexicographer
John Wray (alternate name for John Ray )
Book title
A collection of words not generally used, with their significations and original in two alphabetical catalogues, the one of such as are proper to the northern, the other to the southern countries : with an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England
Edition
Second
Publication place
London
Publisher
Christopher Wilkinson
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
  • dialects (in English)
  • metallurgy
  • minerals
  • mining
Summary
1481 items, including general words and mining, metal, and salt terminology.
Language
headwords: English
explanations: English, Latin
explanations: English, Latin
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
sample: A Knor or Knurre, a short stubbed dwarfish Man. Metaph. from a Knor, or Knot in a Tree. In the South we use the Diminutive Knurle in the same sense.
Wing
R 389
Other editions
1674: Wing R388.
1737: ESTC K10626
1742: ESTC K10627
Facsimiles
Menston: Scolar Press, 1969. PE 1667 .R3 1691A ROBA 1
Criticisms
  • Cram, D., "Birds, beasts and fishes versus bats, mongrels and hybrids: The publication history of John Ray's Dictionariolum," Paradigm 6 (1991): 4-7
  • Görlach (1995): 90
  • Linden (1987): 89
  • Luick, K., Anglia Beiblatt 39: 323-24.