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English language - Obsolete words - Early works to 1800

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    A law dictionary or, the interpreter of words and terms, used either in the common or statute laws of that Part Of Great Britain, call'd England; and in tenures and jocular customs: first published by the Learned Dr. Cowel, and now very much augmented and improv'd, by the Addition of many Thousand Words, as are found in our Histories, Antiquities, Cartularies, Rolls, Registers, and other Manuscript Records, not hitherto Explain'd in any Dictionary, to the Year 1708. With an appendix, containing the antient names of places in (that part of Great-Britain call'd) England, very necessary for the use of all such, that Converse with Ancient Deeds, Charters, &c.

    Cowell, John, 1554-1611. | Date: 1708

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