Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Tabula gratulatoria vii
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xiii
6. Part I. History of dictionaries
7. The Flores of Ouide (1513) 3
8. “Halles Lanfranke” and its most excellent and learned expositive table 17
9. John Lane’s Verball 41
10. The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot’s Dictionary (1538) 55
11. Music amidst the tumult 79
12. Chaos and old night 91
13. Online dictionaries of English slang 109
14. Part II. Word history and cultural history
15. Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) 131
16. The origin of the word yeoman 153
17. Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex 169
18. From denominal to deverbal 193
19. A gente Anglorum appellatur 219
20. William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past 233
21. Contempt 249
22. A lexical skirmish 269
23. Index of subjects 287
24. Index of personal names 291