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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary - S to Z

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary - S to Z

by Thomas Davidson

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About this eBook

Editor
Davidson, Thomas, 1856-1923
Title
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
Credits
Produced by Colin Bell, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
Language
English
LoC Class
PE: Language and Literatures: English
Subject
English language -- Dictionaries
Category
Text
eBook-No.
38700
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38700
Release Date
January 28, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.EXPLANATIONS TO THE STUDENT. — LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS DICTIONARY. — CONTENTS.
  2. 2.PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES. — SUFFIXES.
  3. 3.ETYMOLOGY OF NAMES OF PLACES, &c. — LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, TOGETHER WITH SIGNS AND SYMBOLS USED IN MEDICINE AND MUSIC.
  4. 4.SYMBOLS USED IN MEDICINE AND PHARMACY. — PRESCRIPTION. — Without Abbreviations or Contractions . — English Translation . — LIST OF LATIN PHRASES COMMONLY USED IN THE WRITING OF PRESCRIPTIONS.
  5. 5.MUSICAL SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS.
  6. 6.CORRECT CEREMONIOUS FORMS OF ADDRESS.
  7. 7.PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY OF SCRIPTURE PROPER NAMES. — THE MORE COMMON ENGLISH CHRISTIAN NAMES, WITH THEIR ORIGIN AND MEANING.
  8. 8.WORDS AND PHRASES IN MORE OR LESS CURRENT USE FROM LATIN, GREEK, AND MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES.
  9. 9.THE METRIC or FRENCH SYSTEM.
  10. 10.ADDENDA.

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