Newcastle upon Tyne:

EMERSON CHARNLEY, BIGG-MARKET; AND

BALDWIN AND CRADOCK, LONDON.

MDCCCXXIX.

Gough Add's Northumberland

3025.

Les mots sont le lien des sociétés, le véhicule des lumieres, la base des sciences, les dépositaires des découvertes d'une Nation, de son savoir, de sa politesse, de ses idées: la connoissance des mots est donc un moyen indispensable pour acquérir celle des choses; de-là ces Ouvrages appellés Dictionnaires, Vocabulaires ou Glossaires, qui offrent l'étendue des connoissances de chaque Peuple.-Gebelin.

BARON DURHAM OF THE CITY OF DURHAM, AND OF LAMBTON CASTLE IN THE COUNTY PALATINE OF DURHAM,

THIS NEW EDITION OF A WORK,

INTENDED TO PRESERVE AND ILLUSTRATE THE ANCIENT AND ENERGETIC DIALECT OF THE NORTH,

IS,

WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION, MOST

RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY

THE AUTHOR.

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Preface.

THE Glossary before the Reader is the result of those hours of literary amusement, when it was thought necessary to unbend the mind from professional labour. The Author has felt much satisfaction at the favourable reception which his former attempt to collect and preserve the relics of our good old Northern dialect has received from some of the first literary characters of the age. He has, in particular, been gratified by the approbation of several gentlemen of great philological learning, in both kingdoms; among whom he is proud to rank the Rev. H. I. Todd, the profound editor of two editions of Dr. Johnson's national work, with the most valuable additions; and the Rev. Dr. John Jamieson, whose Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language contains a labour of lexicography, as elaborate and comprehensive as any that has yet appeared.

The Author may be permitted to denominate this an entire new work, rather than a second edition of his former publication. Independent of the numerous additions,

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