Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum : or, a dictionary of all sorts of country affairs, handicraft, trading, and merchandizing. Containing more particularly the whole art of gardening, viz. sowing, setting, grafting, transplanting, salleting, &c. with the names, descriptions, and uses, of all kinds of plants, flowers, and fruits. The raising and ordering of all manner of forest and fruit-trees, and dwarfs. Agriculture in the various parts of it, and the modern improvements made therein. The gentleman's recreation; or the arts of hunting, hawking, fishing, fowling, ferreting, cock-fighting, &c. including (besides the several animals) the tackling, nets, and different instruments used therein. The breeding, feeding, and managing of all sorts of cattle, as also of bees, poultry, and singing-birds; with all their respective diseases, and cures. The preparing of all sorts of English liquors, common eatables and drinkables; with the several parts of country housewifry. The digging, refining, &c. of minerals; salt, and sugar-works; and the arts of making brick, birdlime, gunpowder, shot, &c. merchandizing, trading, and handicraft terms and instruments. The produce, manufactory, &c. of the counties of England, and of foreign parts. The ancient customs, and natural rarities of England. Illustrated with cuts of all sorts of nets, traps, engines, &c.

Format:

• Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Agriculture--Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([844]p. ) ill. ;

Other Title:

Dictionarium rusticum & urbanicum

Place of Publication:

London : printed for J. Nicholson, at the Kings-Arms in Little Britain, 1704.

Notes:

• Variously attributed to Nathan Bailey and John Worlidge.
• Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T138447.

OCLC:

642408970