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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Philosophical Library
Published: 01/01/1958
ISBN: 9780806530420
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.65d