Dictionary of Obsolete English (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780806530420)

This new edition of the well-known definitive glossary provides the key to those terms in the English language that have either changed their meaning or been altogether discarded . . . Words common in the days of Chaucer, Shakespeare or Johnson . . . Even words known to Dickens and Browning, but today obsolete. A fascinating handbook, not merely for the linguist and philologist, but for everyone intrigued by the colorful, the strange and the bizarre in our language.

Author: Richard C. Trench
ISBN-10: 0806530421
ISBN-13: 9780806530420
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1958
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d