Reference books : a classified and annotated guide to the principal works of reference / compiled by John Minto.

  • Minto, John, 1863-1935
Date:
1929
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    —Concise etymolog. diet, of modern English. 983 p. Murray, 1924. PE 1580 Wilslack (F. J.). Diet, of similes, xli, 488 p. Harrap, 1917. PE1445.S5 424 SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS. Crabb (G.). Crabb’s English synonyms. Rev. and enl. by J. H. Finley. 769 p. N. Y., Harper, 1917. PE1591 Fallows (S.). Complete diet, of syno¬ nyms and antonyms. New ed. 512 p. N. Y., Revell, 1925. PE1591 Appx. contains Briticisms and Americanisms, prepositions, discriminated foreign phrases, colloquial phrases and homonyms. A.L. A. Catal., 1926. Flemming (L. A.). Synonyms, an¬ tonyms and associated words. 619 p. N. Y., Putnam, 1913. PE1591 “ Most comprehensive of the books containing groupings of words having similar, opposite, or associated meanings. Includes slang and collo¬ quial words.” A.L. A. Catal.. 1926. March (F. A. and F. A, jr.). Thesaurus diet, of the English language. 4th ed. 1189 p. Philad., Histor. Pub. Co., 1925. la, 8°. PE1625 Ordway (E. B.). Synonyms and anto¬ nyms. vii, 292 p. Harrap, 1918. PE1591 Alphabetical list of some 5,000 words in common use grouped with others of similar and opposite meaning. Roget (P. M.). Thesaurus of English words and phrases. New ed. rev. and enl. by S. R. Roget. xlvi, 691 p. Long¬ mans, 1925. PE 1591 Classif. and arr. so as to facilitate the ex¬ pression of ideas and to assist in literary com¬ position. A standard work, rev., and brought up to date. Smith (C. J.)* Synonyms and antonyms; or kindred words and their opposites. Rev. ed. 406 p. Bell, 1908. (Bohn’s Ref. Lib.). PE1591 Soule (R.). Diet, of English synonymes and synonymous or parallel expressions. New ed. rev. and enl. by G. H. Howison. vii, 488 p. Warne, 1891. PE1591 426 PROSODY. Loring (A.). The rhymer’s lexicon, w. introd. by G. Saintsbury. 2 ed. rev. 879 p. Routl., 1905. PE1519 Walker (J.). Rhyming diet, of the Engl, language. Rev. and enl. by L. H. Dawson. 549 p. Routl.) N.Y., Dutton, 1924. PE1519 A new ed. of this standard work. 427 ENGLISH DIALECTS. SLANG. Barrere (A.) and Leland (C. G.). Diet. of slang, jargon and cant, embracing Engl., Amer. and Anglo-Ind. slang, pidgin Engl., tinkers’ jargon, etc. 2 v. Bell, 1897. PE3721 An ed. of 675 copies in 2 v. was printed for subscribers only by the Ballantvne Press, 1889-90. English Dialect Soc. Publications, 1-80. 33 v. Trilbner, and Henry Froude, 1873- 1896. Ser. A. Bibliographical. See under Biblio¬ graphy belotv. Ser. B. Reprinted glossaries. 3 pts. 1873-4. Ser. C. Original glossaries and glossaries with fresh addns. 2 pt. 1875. Ser. D. Miscellaneous. Glossaries by var. authors of county and district dialects. Farmer (J. S.) and Henley (W. E.), Edd. Slang and its analogues . . . diet, of heterodox speech . . for more than 300 years, with synonyms in Engl., Fr., Ger., Ital., etc. 7 v. Printed for subscribers only, 1890-1904. PE3721 —Diet, of slang and colloquial English, viii, 534 p. Routledge, 1921. PE3721 Abridged from the above. Fraser (E.) and Gibbons (J.). Soldier and sailor words and phrases, incl. slang of the trenches and the Air Force, British and American war-words and service terms and expressions in everyday use, nick¬ names, sobriquets, and titles of regiments with their origins, the battle-honours of the great war awarded to the British army. 372 p. Routl., 1925. V23 Halliwell-Phillipps (J. 0.). Diet, of archaic and provincial words, obsolete phrases, proverbs, and anc. customs from the 14th cent. 7th ed. 996 p. 2 v. in 1. Routl., 1924. PE1667 [Hotten (J. C.)]. The slang diet., etymolog., histor., and anecdotal. A new