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English language - Obsolete words

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    A collection of English 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 counties. With an account of the preparing and refining such metals and minerals as are gotten in England / By John Ray: Fellow of the Royal Society.

    Ray, John, 1627-1705. | Date: 1691
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    A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century / by James Orchard Halliwell.

    Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889. | Date: 1889
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    A dictionary of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and ancient customs, from the fourteenth century / by James Orchard Halliwell.

    Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889. | Date: 1847
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    Etymologicon linguæ anglicanæ, seu explicatio vocum anglicarum etymologica ex propriis fontibus, scil. ex linguis duodecim ... Accedit etymologico botanicum ... Accedit & tertio vocum forensium tum antiquarum & jam obsoletarum, tum recentium, & quæ adhuc in usu sunt, etymologica expositio ... Quarto adjectæ sunt originationes omnium vocum antiquarum anglicarum, quæ usq; à Wilhelmo Victore invaluerunt ... Tandem ultimo Etymologicon onomasticon ... Omnia alphabetico ordine in quinque distinctas classes digesta / Authore Stephano Skinner.

    Skinner, Stephen, 1623-1667. | Date: 1671
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