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Containing the Proper Significations and Etymologies of All Words Derived From Other Languages : Viz. Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, Latin, Italian, French, Spanish, Brittish, Dutch, Saxon, &c. Usefull for the Adornment of Our English Tongue : Together With the Definitions of All Those Terms That Conduce to the Understanding of Any of the Arts or Sciences ... : to Which Are Added the Significations of Proper Names in Mythology or Poetical Fictions and Historical Relations, With the Geographical Descriptions of the Chief Countries and Cities in the World : Especially of These Three Nations, Wherein Their Chiefest Antiquities, Battles, and Other Most Memorable Passages Are Mentioned : as Also All Other Subjects That Are Useful and Appertain to Advance Our English Language : A Work Very Necessary for Strangers, as Well as Our Own Countrymen : or for All Persons That Would Rightly Understand What They Discourse, Write or Read : the Third Edition Containing A Supply of Above Two Thousand Words
