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 us. vi. NOV. 16, i9i2.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

AN I

American Glossary, j

BY

RICHARD H. THORNTON.

In Two Volumes.

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'An American Glossary' is not a Slang Dictionary, though of necessity it includes specimens of vulgar diction.

The Illustrative Quotations, which are accurately dated, number 14,000; and of these more than 11,000 belong to the period before the Civil War.

In some instances a word or phrase which might be thought purely American is traced to an Elizabethan or Jacobean origin.

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