Forgotten Meanings

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Excerpt from Forgotten Meanings: Or an Hour With a DictionaryIN collecting these forgotten meanings, I have been upon my guard against the entice ments'of conjectural etymology, and have rejected much that was most alluring, bearing in mind the warning afforded by Peter Le Loyer, who though he had read more books, perhaps, than any other man in the world, went raving. Mad about etymons.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.