Thomas Davidson

IMG:Wiki source-logo.svg.png:Wiki source logo exported from Wiki source on August 16, 2026 Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary | Preface and Explanations to the Student A A to Adhere Adhesion to Alexandrine Alfa to Anapæst Anaphora to Aphrodisiac Aphthæ to Aroint Aroma to Attorney Attract to Azymous B B to Barren Barret to Belive Bell to Birth Bis to Boom Boomerang to Brine Bring to Byzantine C C to Canton Cantor to Catechise Catechu to Chaplet Chapman to Chrysoprase Chrysotype to Clouted Clove to Commiserate Commi ary to Connote Connubial to Cork Corm to Crasis Cra to Curari Cura ow to Czech D D to Defect Defence to Deterge Deteriorate to Diptera Diptych to Distrust Distune to Dragoon Dragsman to Dziggetai E E to Embalm Embank to Entomology Entomostomata to Even Evening to Eyry F F to Femerell Femur to Flat Flatter to Foretell Forethink to Free Freemartin to Fytte G G to Genius Genoese to Gold Golf to Groove Grope to Gyve | H H to Haste Hat to Heredity Heresy to Holy Holy well to Hurry Hurst to Hythe I I to Inarching Inarm to Inhale Inharmonious to Intrepid Intricate to Ixtle J J to Jymold K K to Kythe L L to Law Lawk to Liebig Lied to Loligo Lolium to Lytta M M to Manufacture Manumit to Medic Medical to Militia Milk to Mole Molecule to Mound Mount to Myzontes N N to Nicknack Nickname to Nyula O O to Onerous Oneyer to Out quench Outrage to Ozostomia P P to Paper Papeterie to Paternoster Path to Pepo Pepper to Philomusical Philopena to Pistachio Pistareen to Poison Poitrel to Pot-pourri Potsherd to Prick Pricket to Proscribe Prose to Purify Purim to Pyxidium Q Q to Quo warran to R R to Ravage Rave to Reed Re-edify to Repaint Repair to Return Retuse to Righteous Rigid to Rotula Rotund to Ryve | S S to Sand Sandal to Scaphium Scaphocephalic to Scrimshaw Scrine to Seil Seine to Serpent Serpet to Shilly-shally Shilpit to Simnel Simon-pure to Slope Slops to Soliloquy Soliped to Sperm Spermaceti to Squat Squatter to Stethoscope Stevedore to Strong Strongyle to Sumac Sumerian to Swinge Swingle to Syzygy T T to Tax Taxiarch to Thallus Thalweg to Tillandsia Tiller to Tournure Touse to Trifacial Trifarious to Tunny Tup to Tzigany U U to Undersky Under sleep to Unmerited Unmeted to Unwon dering Unwonted to Uzbeg V V to Verse Versed to Vying W W to Wax Way to Whitleather Whitlow to Wyvern X X to Xyster Y Y to Y-wis Z Z to Zyxomma Supplements Prefixes and Suffixes Etymology of Names of Places, . List of Abbreviations Signs & Symbols used in Medicine and Music Correct Ceremonious Forms of Addre Pronouncing Vocabulary of Scripture Proper Names The More Common English Christian Names Words and Phrases from Latin, Greek, and Modern Foreign Languages The Metric or French System Addenda | IMG:c135_icon.svg_60px_PD_icon.svg.png_utm_source_en.wiki source.org_utm_campaign_parser_utm_content_thumbnail: This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Public domain Public domain false false Preface and Explanations to the Student PREFACE. This is the third English Dictionary which the present Editor has prepared, and he may therefore lay claim to an unusually prolonged apprenticeship to his trade. It is surely unnece ary for him to say that he believes this to be the best book of the three, and he can afford to rest content if the Courteous Reader receive it with the indulgence extended to his Library Dictionary, published in the spring of 1898. It is based upon that work, but will be found to po e many serviceable qualities of its own. It is not much le in content, and its greater relative portability is due to smaller type, to thinner paper, and still more to a rigorous compre ion and condensation in the definitions, by means of which room has been found for many additional words. The aim has been to include all the common words in literary and conversational English, together with words obsolete save in the pages of Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the Authorised Version of the Bible. An attempt has been made also to include the common terms of the sciences and the arts of life, the vocabulary of sport, those Scotch and provincial words which a ert themselves in Burns, Scott, the Brontës, and George Eliot, and even the coinages of word-masters like Carlyle, Browning, and Meredith. Numberle compound idiomatic phrases have also been given a place, in each case under the head of the significant word. Correctne in technical matters has been ensured by consulting such books as Smyth's Sailor's Word-Book , Voyle's Military Dictionary , Wilson's Stock-Exchange Glo ary , Lee's Glo ary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms , . Besides books of this cla , the Editor has made constant use of special books such as Schmidt's Shakespeare-Lexicon , Cal der wood's edition of Fleming's Vocabulary of Philosophy , Jamie son's Scottish Dictionary , the Stanford Dictionary of Anglicised Words and Phrases , Yule and Burnell's Anglo-Indian Glo ary , Addis and Arnold's Catholic Dictionary , and the Dictionaries of the Bible of Sir William Smith and Dr Hastings. In Latin, his authority is Lewis and Short; in Greek, Liddell and Scott; in Romance Philology, Diez and Scheler; in French, Littré; in Spanish, Velazquez; in German, Weigand and Flügel; in Gaelic, Macleod and Dewar, and M'Bain; in Hebrew, Gesenius. In English etymology the Editor has consulted Profe or Skeat's Dictionary and his Principles of English Etymology —First and Second Series; the magistral New English Dictionary of Dr James A. H. Murray and Mr Henry Bradley, so far as completed; and the only le valuable English Dialect Dictionary of Profe or Wright (begun 1896). Two complete American English Dictionaries still hold the first place as works of reference, Profe or Whitney's Century Dictionary and Funk and Wagnall's Standard Dictionary . The Editor has great pleasure in acknowledging his personal obligations to his brothers, the Rev. Robert P. Davidson, B.A., of Trinity College, Oxford, and David G. Davidson, M.D., Edinburgh; and to his equally capable and courteous colleagues, Mr J. R. Pairman and David Patrick, LL.D., Editor of Chambers's Encyclopædia . T. D. EXPLANATIONS TO THE STUDENT.