The new spelling dictionary, teaching to write and pronounce the English tongue with ease and propriety, In which each Word is accented according to its just and natural Pronunciation; the Part of Speech is properly distinguished, and The various Significations are ranged in one Line; With a list of proper names of men and women. The whole compiled and digested in a manner entirely new, to make it a complete pocket companion for those Who read Milton, Pope, Addison, Shakespeare, Tillotson and Locke, or other English Authors of Repute in Prose or Verse: And in particular to assist young People, Artificers, Tradesmen and Foreigners, desirous to understand what they speak, read and write. To which is prefixed, a grammatical introduction to the English Tongue. By the Rev. Joh Entick, A. M. Editor of Littleton's Latin and English Dictionary and Schrevelius's Greek Lexicon. Carefully revised and corrected; to which with the former Additions, is now first subjoined, chiefly extracted from Doctor Ash's large octavo Dictionary-A Compendious Historical Dictionary of the Heathen Gods and Goddesses, Heroes and Heroines, &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Entick, John, 1703?-1773.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Dictionaries.

English language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (470,[2]p. )

Edition:

A new edition, carefully revised and corrected; ..

Other Title:

New spelling dictionary,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, and may be had of the principal booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland, 1776.

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T61473.

OCLC:

642645872