John Caius, Of English Dogs (1576)

Full Text
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Date
1576
Author
Translator
Abraham Fleming Note: 30/09/2005
Lexicon title
A Supplement or Addition, containing a demonstration of Dogges names how they had their Originall.
Book title
Of Englishe Dogges, the diuersities, the names, the natures, and the properties
Publication place
London
Printer
Richard Johns
Transcription source
EEBO/TCP
Text type
printed book
Genre
Treatises
Subject area
  • Dogs
  • fauna
Summary
A brief account of the names of familiar English dogs in Abraham Fleming's translation of part 1 of John Caius's De Canibus Britannicis.
Language
headwords: English / Latin
explanations: English
other languages: French Italian
explanations: English
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
number: 11
sample: AFter such as serue for hunting orderly doe follow such as serue for hawking and fowling, Among which the principall and chiefest is the Spaniell, called in Latine Hispaniolus, borrowing his name of Hispania Spaine, wherein wee Englishe men not pronouncing the Aspiration H, Nor the Vowell I, for quicknesse and redinesse of speach say roundly A Spaniell.
STC
4347