RICHARDSON'S

NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

IN Two VOLUMES.

Volume the First. A to K

Dictionary of the English Language,

COMBINING EXPLANATION WITH ETYMOLOGY :

AND ILLUSTRATED BY QUOTATIONS FROM THE

BEST AUTHORITIES.

The Words—with those of the same family, in German, Dutch and
Swedish, or in Italian, French and Spanish,-

are traced to their Origin.

The EXPLANATIONS are deduced from the primitive Meaning through

the various Usages.

The Quotations are arranged Chronologically from the earliest

period to the beginning of the present century.

BY CHARLES RICHARDSON, LL. D.

VOLUME THE FIRST.

ALDI

DISCIP.

ANGLVS

LONDON: WILLIAM PICKERING.