Provides definitions of 1,001 obsolete English words and phrases, such as snaffle, whiffletree, and horse apple. Includes over one hundred illustrations.

An easy-to-use dictionary of over 80,000 rhyming words.

Did you know that a horse apple is actually a type of orange? Or that a whiffletree is not a tree at all? You will, after you pore through this delightful dicti

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced

World Englishes is a twelve-volume series, presenting a comprehensive, detailed survey of English as it is spoken all over the world. The volumes are organised