THE WORDS ARE EXPLAINED IN THE ORDER OF THEIR NATURAL AFFINITY,

Independent of Alphabetical Arrangement;

AND

THE SIGNIFICATION OF EACH IS TRACED FROM ITS ETYMOLOGY,

THE PRESENT MEANING BEING ACCOUNTED FOR, WHEN IT DIFFERS

FROM ITS FORMER ACCEPTATION:

THE WHOLE

EXHIBITING, IN ONE CONTINUED NARRATIVE, THE

ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND MODERN USAGE

OF THE EXISTING VOCABULARY OF THE ENGLISH TONGUE;

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

AN INTRODUCTION, CONTAINING A NEW GRAMMAR OF THE LANGUAGE,

AND

AN ALPHABETICAL INDEX, FOR THE EASE OF CONSULTATION.

BY DAVID BOOTH.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JAMES COCHRANE AND CO.,
11, WATERLOO PLACE, PALL MALL.

1835.

PREFACE.

THE ANALYTICAL DICTIONARY was originally announced for publication in twelve successive Parts, six of which are here produced. These, though not including the whole of the English Vocabulary, complete a Volume that, by means of its General Index, may be read and consulted as an independent work. The following Prospectus was circulated along with Part I.; and the purchasers will now be enabled to judge how far its promises have been fulfilled :

SOME apology seems requisite for attempting to increase the number of Dictionaries of the English Language. The task of a Lexicographer is proverbially laborious, but labour does not necessarily imply improvement, and books may be multiplied without any advantage to mankind. Neither, then, boasting of its merits nor pleading peculiar circumstances in extenuation of its faults, the following is given as an outline of the plan of the performance.

The thoughts of the human mind are expressed by articulated sounds. In the written languages of Europe, words are conventional marks that indicate these sounds, and thereby recall to memory the associated ideas. Simplicity of thought will produce simplicity of expression, and hence the

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