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    A dictionary, Spanish and English, and English and Spanish containing the signification of words, with their different uses; the terms of arts, sciences, and trades; the contructions, forms of speech, idioms used in both languages, and several thousand words more than any other Dictionary; with their proper, figurative, burlesque, and cant significations, &c. Also the Spanish words accented and spelled according to the modern observations of the Royal Spanish Academy of Madrid.

    Giral del Pino, Hip�olito San Joseph. | Date: 1763
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    A new canting dictionary : comprehending all the terms, antient and modern, used in the several tribes of gypsies, beggars, shoplifters, highwaymen, foot-pads, and all other clans of cheats and villains, interspersed with proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c.

    | Date: [1725]

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