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1866, July Bequest of Jos. E. Worcester, L.L.D. if Cambridge.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY W. CLOWES,

Northumberland-court.

PREFACE.

DURING the course of many years' desultory reading, the author of the following short dictionary was in the habit of extracting from an infinite variety of periodical and scientific works, all the new terms that occurred, with the explanations given by their inventors, which he afterwards modified and corrected as subsequent discoveries rendered expedient, until their distinct and peculiar acceptation seemed conclusively fixed. In process of time these memoranda accumulated so greatly, that an alphabetical arrangement became indispensable, and having found the manuscript vocabulary thus gradually compiled, of great utility for his own occasional reference, he thought that when enlarged, it might also prove beneficial to others, more especially as no work of so compendious a form, or concentrating so many explications with