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  • A - AUTHOR NAMES
    • A Proverb
    • AProverb (template)
    • Abbot >
      • Brief Description of the Whole World
      • Abbot (no work cited)
    • Accidence
    • Addison [Joseph]
    • Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
    • AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
    • Ainsworth [Robert]
    • [Allestree, Richard]
    • Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
    • Amhurst [Nicholas]
    • Anon.
    • Apostles Creed
    • Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
    • Arbuthnot [John]
    • Arbuthnot and Pope
    • Aristotle
    • Ascham [Roger]
    • Atterbury [Francis]
    • Ayliffe [John]
  • B - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Bacon [Francis]
    • Bailey [Nathan]
    • Baker [Thomas]
    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
        • Warburton [William]
        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
        • Watts [Isaac]; Wat.
        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
        • West [Gilbert]
        • Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]
        • White [Francis]
        • Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
        • Widow and Cat
        • Wilkins [John]
        • William of Wykeham
        • Wise [Francis]
        • Wiseman [Richard]
        • Wollaston [William]
        • Wood [Anthony]
        • Woodward [John]; Woodw.
        • Wotton [Henry]
        • Wycherley [William]
        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
      • Steevens [George]
      • Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons
      • Stepney [George]
      • Sternhold [Thomas]
      • Steuart
      • Stillingfleet [Edward]
      • Stone [Edmund]
      • [Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]
      • Suckling [John]
      • Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
      • Sylvester [Joshua]
    • Raleigh [Walter]
    • Ralph [James]
    • Ray [John]
    • Reynolds [Joshua]
    • Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
    • [Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
    • Robert of Gloucester
    • [Rochester, Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
    • Rogers [John]
    • Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
    • Rowe [Nicholas]
    • Rowe’s Life [?James Welwood]
    • Rowland[s] [Henry]
    • [Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
    • Rymer [Thomas]
  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Taliessyn [Taliesen]
    • Taylor [John] the Water-poet
    • Tate [Nahum]
    • Tatler
    • Temple [William] >
      • Taylor [Jeremy]
    • Theobald [Lewis]
    • Thomson [James]
    • Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
    • Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle
    • Trapp [Joseph]
    • Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
    • Tillotson [John]
    • [Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull
    • Turberville [George]
    • Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
    • Tusser [Thomas]
  • Unattributed phrase or definition
  • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
    • Verses on Cleaveland
    • Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Young [Edward]
    • Yalden [Thomas]
  • Z - AUTHOR NAMES
  • Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins]
  • Henley [John]
  • [Trevisa] John de Trevisa
  • Knighton [Henry]
  • New Page
  • Baxter [Richard]
  • Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
  • Gentleman Instructed
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]
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Authorities by Letter of First Appearance (1st Edition)
Authority first appearance numbers: A 166; B 34; C 42; D 28; E 11; F 30; G 8; H 6; I/J 11; K 1; L 17; M 9; N 2; O 3; P 15; Q 4; R 10; S 11; T 8; U/V 5; W 5.  Some of the entries for texts below have been subsumed under the names of the known authors.  For the current breakout of the total authorities in the 1755 Dict. see Context - History Relevant to Authors
A 
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Addison [Joseph]; A-a
Arbuthnot [John]; A-abatement
​Aristotle; A-acroatics

Atterbury [Francis]; A-abatement
Ayliffe [John]; A-abbacy
​Bacon [Francis]; A-abbreviate

Bailey [Nathan]; A-abased
​Bentley [Richard]; A-abstractly
​Bible; A-artillery; (1st: quote, but not citation)
​Blackmore [Richard]; Black.; A-adult
Blount [Thomas]; A-amortise
​Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]; A-acquaintance
​Boyle [Robert]; A-abjectedness
​Bracton [Henry de]; A-affied
​Bramhall [John]; A-amatory
​Brerewood [Edward]; A-answerably
​Broome [William]; A-ascend
​Brown[e] [Thomas]; A-abbreviate
​Bruno [de Segni]; A-amice
Buckhurst [see Dorset]; A-at
​Builder’s Dict.; A-architrave

Bull [George]; A-adversaria
Burnet [Thomas]; A-absorb
Burton [Robert]; A-addle
[Butler, Samuel] Hudibras, Butler; A-alimony
​Calmet [Antoine Augustin]; A-almug-tree

Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]; A-abalienate
Camden [William], “Camden’s Remains,” (also see Gibson for Brittania trans.); A-agnomination
Carew [Richard]; Car.; A-abut
Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]; A-arriere ban

Chambers [Ephraim]; A-abased
Chapman [George]; A-augurous
​Cheyne [George]; A-action

Child [Josiah]; A-absentee
​Clarendon [Edward Hyde]; A-abrogation

Clarke [John]; A-active
Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]; A-addable

Coke [Edward]; A-agreement
Collier [Jeremy], Collyer; A-agreeableness;
Colson [John?]; A-accurate
Common Prayer; A-advent
Congreve [William]; A-argue
​Cowel [John]; A-abate

Cowley [Abraham]; A-adorn
Crashaw [Richard] (cragged quote should be attib. to Donne); A-abundance
Creech [Thomas]; A-atheist
Cudworth [Ralph]; A-airbladder
Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]; A-addeem

Davies [John (Sir)]; A-abate
Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?; A-abet

[Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe; A-awning
Delany [Patrick]; A-accuracy
Denham [John]; A-abroad
Dennis [John]; A-alienable
Derham [William]; A-anticipation
​D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]; A-almacantar

Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]; A-antagonize
Digby [Kenelm]; A-applicability

Donne [John]; Don.; A-abridgement
Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst; A-at
​Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus; A-a

Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]; A-alcaid
​Evelyn [John]; A-
ablaqueation
Fairfax [Edward]; A-accordance
Farrier’s Dict.; A-amble
Felton [Henry]; A-adulteration
Fenton [Elijah]; A-ambient
​Floyer [John]; A-anchovy
​Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]; A-abbot
​Garth [Samuel]; A-alligator

Gay [John]; A-afield
Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden; A-ael, aelf
Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]; A-advantage
Government of the Tongue; A-aforehand
Granville [George]; A-aconite
Graunt [John]; A-afflux
Grew [Nehemiah]; A-abjectness

Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]; A-abortive
Hale [Matthew]; A-abjure

Hammond [Henry]; Ham.; A-acception
Harris [John]; A-Armillary
Harvey [Gideon]; A-acrimonious
Hayward [John]; A-abolish; Haywood-accomplishment
Herbert [George]; A-abusiveness
Holder [William]; A-abstruse
​Hooker [Richard]; Hook.; A-abjection

Howel [Howell, James]; How.; A-actionable
Jervas [Charles]; A-adroit
[Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben; A-abrupt
Junius  [Francis]; A-addle
[Kane] Cane; A-attack
​Knighton [Henry]; A-array

Knolles [Richard]; A-adjudge
L’Estrange [Roger]; A-agitation

Littleton [ Thomas]; Lyttleton; de Littleton; A-abeyance (in dictionary quote)
Locke [John]; A-abase
May [Thomas]; A-aldern
Ménage [Gilles]; A-abandon
Miller [Philip]; A-adders-tongue
Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost; A-abash
[Minsheu] Minshew [John]; A-anon
Mortimer [John]; A-acrospire
Moxon [Joseph]; A-addice
Newton [Isaac[; A-allay
Norris [John]; A-all-sufficient
Oldham [John]; A-accountable
​Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]; A-advance

Pasquier [Etienne]; A-abandon
Peacham [Henry]; A-abortive
Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.; A-administer
Phillips; [Philips, John]; A-abode
​Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype; A-abide

Prior [Matthew]; A-a
Quincy [John]; A-abdomen
​Raleigh [Walter]; A-abiding

Ray [John]; A-academist
[Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela; A-alive
Rogers [John]; A-ability
Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]; A-abusive
Rowe [Nicholas]; A-abortion
Rymer [Thomas]; A-accidental
[Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson; A-alcoran
​Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]; A-acacia

Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]; A-amen
[Sedley, Charles] Sidley; A-afeared
Shakespeare [William]; A-a
Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.; A-adult
​Sidney [Philip]; A-abandon

Skinner [Stephen]; A-atter
Smith [Edmund]; A-amaze
Smith [John]; A-antanaclasis (Smith’s Rhetoric)
Somner [William]; A-aspen
​South [Robert]; A-abhorrence
Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]; A-abominate
Spectator [Addison and Steele]; Addison’s Spectator; A-affectation
Spelman [Henry]; A-arbitrable
​Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen; A-aband

Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]; A-absolutely
Stepney [George]; A-appeal
Stillingfleet [Edward]; A-about
Stone [Edmund]; Stone’s Dict.; A-angle
Suckling [John]; A-advisedly
Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver; A-abatement
​Tatler; A-agoing

Taylor [Jeremy]; A-abbreviature
Taylor [John] the Water-poet; A-accidence
Temple [William]; A-accrue
Thomson [James]; A-abhorrent
Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle; Tickell; A-absolve
Tillotson [John]; A-about
​Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]; A-acacia
Tusser [Thomas]; A-addle
​Wafer [Lionel]; A-administer

Wake [William]; A-assistance
Waller [Edmund]; A-adviser
Wallis [John]; A-a
Walsh [William]; A-advance
Walton [Izaak]; (Watson's Life of Sanderson, Watts (incorrect entries in 1st and abstracted ed.; A-apothegm; Corrected to Walton in 4th); A-arm
Watts [Isaac]; Wat.; A-abstract
​Wilkins [John]; A-able

Wiseman [Richard]; A-abdomen
Wood [Anthony]; A-abecedarian
Woodward [John]; Woodw.; A-abide
Wotton [Henry]; A-a
​Young [Edward]; A-alternative
B
Ainsworth [Robert]; B-button
​Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]; B-bow
​Anon.; B-bravado
​Ascham [Roger]; B-babish
​Baxter [William]; B-ball
​Bochart, Samuel; B-behemouth
Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]; B-bay
​Brampston [James Bramston], Man of Taste; B-buttery
​Caius [John Kays]; B-bandog

Calamy [Edmund]; B-bankrupt
Causabin [Isaac Causabon]; B-brake
​Chaucer [Geoffrey]; B-braid

Cheselden [William]; B-brain
​Cujas [Jacques]; B-bachelor
Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope; B-bubbler
​Drayton [Michael]; B-balk
Felibien [Andre]; B-bass-relief
​Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill; B-beautifically
​Henshaw [Thomas]; B-booby
​Hesychius [of Alexandria]; B-bashful
​Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]; B-bawble
​King [William]; King’s Cookery; B-batter

King Charles [Charles I]; B-betray
Lee [Nathaniel]; B-bore
​Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.; B-bedlamite (changed to Fitzgerald in 4th)
Lye [Edward]; B-bilk
​Martial; B-basket
​Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]; B-bolis
​Otway [Thomas]; B-birthright
Phillips [Edward]; B-bugle

Pineda [Pedro]; B-becafico
Sea Dict.; B-boltsprit
​Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals; B-beshrew
​[Trevisa] John de Trevisa; B-buxom
​W____n [Waldren]; B-bum
C
Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]; C-caltrops
​Amhurst [Nicholas]; C-choral
​Arbuthnot, C. [Charles}; C-cates
Baker [Thomas]; C-conciliar
​Betterton [Thomas]; C-clack
​Bluteau [Raphael]; C-cimeter
Boerhaave [Herman]; C-chymistry

​Cicero [Marcus Tullius]; C-climax
​Cleaveland [John Cleveland]; Cleavel; C-concorporate
​Drummond [William]; C-compatriot
​Duppa [Brian]; C-call
Farquhar [George]; C-coax
​Fiddes [Richard]; C-cohabit

​Fletcher [John], Flet. Q. of Cor.; C-circle
​Geddes [Michael]; C-clausure
​Hanmer [Thomas]; C-chough
​Hickes [George]; C-chit

Hill [John]; C-citrine
Homer; C-caitiff
​Horace; C-cork
​Jewel [John]; C-clawback

[Johnson, Samuel] Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Irene; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man; C-consoler (attrib. to Warburton in Abstr. Ed.)
Latimer [Hugh] ; C-contrary

​Mandeville; Maundeville [John]; C-cattle; C-cedar (Maundrel)
Martin [Benjamin]; C-camera obscura
​Military Dict.; C-counterguard
​Molineux [William Molyneaux]; C-candlelight

​Nigel de Wetekre; C-chancellor
Ogle [George]; C-clover

Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant (see Sanderson); C-consentient
Pearson [John]; C-connaturalness
​Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.; C-carrier
​Prideaux [Humphrey]; C-caligraphy
Salernum, School of; Schol. Sal.; C-comfort​
​Shaw [Peter]; C-chymistry
​Smalridge [George]; Smallridge; C-cut
​Tate [Nahum]; C-cropsick
​[Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull; (
Trumball to Pope; Trumbull to Pope); C-caveat
​Unknown correspondent (a); C-cat in the pan

Unknown correspondent (b); C- curmudgeon
​Vanbrugh [John]; C-cat o’ nine tails

Verstegan  (Rowlands, Richard); C-crone
Warburton [William]; C-consoler
D
A Proverb; D-devil ​
​Abbot [George]; D-distemperature
​Berkley [George Berkeley]; D-decoy
Brown [John]; D-disinterestedness
​​Church Catechism; D-death
​Cotton [Charles]; D-dimunitive
​Dier; Dyer [John Dyer]; D-dispart
​Douglas [Gavin]; D-deray
Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]; D-docile
​[Greek] Anthology; D-dream
Halifax [Charles Montague]; D-daringly

Hall [Joseph]; D-definitively
​Keil [Keill, John]; D-detrusion
​Law [William]; D-devotion
​Lily [William]; D-dodkin
​Marvel[l] [Andrew]; D-distrain
​More [Henry]; D-deobstruct
Motteux [Motteux, Peter Anthony]; D-discourteous
​Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st earl]; D-deadly
​Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques] (corrected to Ozanam in 4th); D-descension
​Ralph [James]; D-dangler
​Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]; D-desecrate

Sandys [George]; San.; D-delinquency
​Smart [Christopher]; D-delfe
​Ward [Seth]; D-dehort

Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton]; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent; U/V-unfamiliar; D-dimply
​Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte; D-dig
E
​Buckingham [John Sheffield]; E-expression
​Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]; E-enfilade
​Gray  [Stephen]; E-electricity
​King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K.  James’s Declaration; E-evict
Mareschall [Thomas Marshall]; E-emberweek
​Mead [Richard]; E-effervesce
​Nelson [Robert]; E-emberweek
​Nichols; E-eft
​Savage [Richard]; E-elevate
​Walker [William]; E-exegetical
​Wollaston [William]; E-evanescent
F
​
AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]; F-first
​Blount [Edward] to Pope; F-fall
Chevy Chase; F-flourish
​​Clarke [Samuel]; F-fidelity
​Croxal [Samuel]; F-fabulist
​Davies [John]; F-flannel
​Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]; F-find
Fanshaw [Richard]; F-fagend
​Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]; F-foreslow
​Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.); F-foible
​Garretson [John]; F-for

Garrick’s Epilogue [David]; F-fabulist
Hacket [John]; F-frampold
​Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]; F-ferret
​Hill, Aaron; F-forbidding
​Lib. Londiniensis; (Lib. Londinensis in 4th); F-fatten
​Lloyd [William]; F-fable
Mackenzie [George]; Mackenzie’s Lives; 
F-fag
Malcolm [Alexander]; F-fellowship (fellowship not in 4th)
Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling; F- fire
More [Thomas]; F- further (ety.)
Newton [Thomas]; F-flatter
​Old Song; F-fault
​Pemberton [Henry]; F-fossil

Pezron [Paul-Yves]; F-fail
Shadwell [Thomas]; F-fire
Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]; F-ferula
Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons; F-forgery
[Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]; F-forth
​West [Gilbert]; F-forger
G
​
Accidence; Preface to Accidence; G-ground
​Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher; G-gord
​Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]; G-gallop
​Flatman [Thomas]; G-ghastly
​Goodman [John]; G-gird

Gouldman [Francis]; G-grice
Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]; G-give
​Sappho; G-green
H
​
Apostles Creed; H-hell
​Cockburn [John?]; H-hand
​Francis [I] of France; H-harlequin
Hughes’s Spenc.  [John]; H-hilding
​Welsted [Leonard]; H-hero (hero not in 4th)
Yalden [Thomas]; H-humble

I/J
​
Chillingworth [William]; I/J-impossible
Corbet; Corbet , Bp.; Corbet [Corbett, Richard]; I/J-inquisition

​​Cromwell [Henry] (Cromwell to Pope); I/J-interpolation
Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry; I/J-imp
Fleetwood [William]; I/J-inoffensive
​Forbes [Duncan]; I/J-impious
Layer's Trial; I/J-introduce
​Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of; I/J-just
​Pattison [William]; I/J-indignity
Wase [Christopher]; I/J-invocation (Atr. to “Wisem.” in Abstr. Ed.)
K
​
King James [I]; K-kingcraft
L
Barker; Mrs. Barker [Jane Barker]; L-life
​Baynard [Edward]; L-lather
​Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]; L-liquid
​Dryden, J. jun [John]; L-look
​Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]; L-lie
​Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]; L-lewd
Herring [Thomas]; L-lead
​Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]; L-let
[Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul; L-legislation
​Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance; L-loord (ety.)
Markham [Gervase]; L-liard
​Phil. Trans.; L-lough
Robert of Gloucester; L-lither
​Scotch Proverb; L-leverook
​Song of the King and the Miller; L-lambs-wool
Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]; L-lullaby
​Wycherley [William]; L-lay
M
​Bourne [Vincent]; M-may
Cave, Edward; M-magazine​​
​[Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting; M-marital
​Eachard [John]; M-merrythought
​James’s Voyage [Thomas]; M-mammock
Rowland[s] [Henry]; M-mail (mail etym. not in 4th)
​
​Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]; M-mummy
​Trapp [Joseph]; M-marshaller
​William of Wykeham; M-man
N
​
Escape of King Charles [Thomas Blount]; N-noggen
​Virgil; N-napkin
O
​Fisher [John]; O-or
Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]; O-orrery
​Rowe’s Life [James Welwood]; O-of
P
Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]; P-predal
​Brooke [Henry]; P-perseverance
Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]; P-proportion
​Children in the Wood; P-painfully
​Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]; P-puissance
​Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]; P-polytheist
​Garlick [Thomas]; P-protrude
[Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; 
P-pique; (Shakespeare Illustrated; S-sally)
London Dispensatory [
Pharmacopoeia Londinensis or, The new London dispensatory, tr. by William Salmon]; P-prejudiced
​
Manwood [John] (Manwood of the Laws of the Forrest); P-pricket
Mart.  Scribl.  [Martinus Scriblerus]; P-palpability
Moreton [Anne] (Moreton’s Daily Exercise); P-perish
​Persius; P-poetress
​Sylvester [Joshua]; P-periwig
​Widow and Cat; P -perfidious
Q
​
Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]; Q-quarrel
Kennet [White Kennett]; Q-quarry
​Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]; Q- quatrain
​Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy; Q-quail
R
​
[Callimachus]; R-rest
Fell; R-revulsive​
​Logie; R-resistless
Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]; R-reprobation
​Pearce [Zachary]; R-realty
​Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]; R--relish

Sewel [George]; R-reciprocate
Steele [Richard] to Pope; R-ruminate

Sternhold [Thomas]; R-read
​Waller’s Life [Francis Atterbury?]; R-repeat
S
​
Arbuthnot and Pope see Martinus Scriblerus; S-saraband
​Bathurst [Ralph]; S-stout

Beaumont [Joseph]; S-syllabub
Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]; S-sit
​Collins [William]; S-sod
​Corbet, J.; S-strong
Hearne [Thomas]; S-stoniness
​Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward] (Lyttleton in 4th); S-spider
Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]; S-sack
​Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]; S-swab
​Taliessyn [Taliesen]; S-stain
T
​Concanen [Matthew]; T-tributary
​Duke [Richard]; T-translate
​Fox [John Foxe]; T-trump

​Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph; T-thorny
Song; T-truth
​Turberville [George]; T-trull
​Wesley [Samuel]; T-trump
​Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]; T-trick
U/V
​
Davenant [Charles]; U/V-unlearned
Dier [Samuel Dyer]; U/V-ugly
​Giffard [Gifford, Richard]; U/V-vicissitude

​L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]; U/V-virflay
​Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards; U/V-unstaid
​Skelton [Philip]; U/V-unstinted
​
W
​
Lauderdale [John Maitland]; W-warriour
Nicene Creed; W-world
​Wise [Francis]; W-warlock
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  • A - AUTHOR NAMES
    • A Proverb
    • AProverb (template)
    • Abbot >
      • Brief Description of the Whole World
      • Abbot (no work cited)
    • Accidence
    • Addison [Joseph]
    • Addison, Dr. [Lancelot]
    • AEn. [Aeneid; Pitt, Christopher]
    • Ainsworth [Robert]
    • [Allestree, Richard]
    • Alleyne [Aleyn, Charles]
    • Amhurst [Nicholas]
    • Anon.
    • Apostles Creed
    • Arbuthnot, C. [Charles]
    • Arbuthnot [John]
    • Arbuthnot and Pope
    • Aristotle
    • Ascham [Roger]
    • Atterbury [Francis]
    • Ayliffe [John]
  • B - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Bacon [Francis]
    • Bailey [Nathan]
    • Baker [Thomas]
    • Barker; Mrs. Barker
    • Bathurst [Ralph]
    • Baxter [William]
    • Baynard [Edward]
    • Beattie [James]
    • Beaumont [Francis]; B. and Fletcher
    • Beaumont [Joseph]
    • Bentley [Richard]
    • Berkley [George Berkeley]
    • Betterton [Thomas]
    • Bible
    • Blackmore [Richard]
    • Blount [Edward] to Pope
    • Blount [Thomas]
    • Bluteau [Raphael]
    • Bochart, Samuel
    • Boerhaave [Herman]
    • Boileau [-Despreaux, Nicholas]
    • Bolingbroke [Henry St. John]
    • Bourd [Boorde, Andrew]
    • Bourne [Vincent]
    • Boyle [Robert]
    • Boyse, Sa. [Samuel]
    • Bracton [Henry de]
    • Bramhall [John]
    • Brampston [James Bramston]
    • Brerewood [Edward]
    • Brooke [Henry]
    • Brooks
    • Broome [William]
    • Brown[e] [Edward]
    • Brown[e] [Thomas]
    • Brown[e] [William]
    • Bruno [de Segni]
    • Buckingham [John Sheffield]
    • Buckhurst [see Dorset]
    • Budaeus [Guillaume Budé]
    • Builder’s Dict.
    • Bull [George]
    • Burnet [Thomas]
    • Burton [Robert]
    • [Butler, Samuel] Hudibras
  • C - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Caius [John Kays]
    • Calamy [Edmund]
    • [Callimachus]
    • Calmet [Antoine Augustin]
    • Calvin [Johannes Wetteranus Calvinus]
    • Camden [William]
    • Carew [Richard]; Car.
    • Carew [Thomas]
    • Carte [Thomas] Life of Ormonde
    • Carter, Mrs. [Elizabeth]
    • Casaubin [Meric Casaubon]
    • Casseneuve [Cazeneuve, Pierre de]
    • Cave, Edward
    • Chambers [Ephraim]
    • Chapman [George]
    • Chaucer [Geoffrey]
    • Cheselden [William]
    • Chesterfield, Earl of [Philip Dormer Stanhope]
    • Chevy Chase
    • Cheyne [George]
    • Child [Josiah]
    • Children in the Wood
    • Chillingworth [William]
    • Church Catechism
    • Cicero [Marcus Tullius]
    • Clarendon [Edward Hyde]
    • Clarke [John]
    • Clarke [Samuel]
    • Cleaveland [John]; Cleavel
    • Cockburn [John]
    • Cock[er]; Cocker [Edward]
    • Coke [Edward]
    • [Collier, Jane] Art of Tormenting
    • Collier [Jeremy]; Collyer
    • Collins [William]
    • Colson [John]
    • Common Prayer
    • Concanen [Matthew]
    • Congreve [William]
    • Corbet, J.
    • Corbet; Corbet , Bp. [Corbett, Richard]
    • Cotton [Charles]
    • Cowel [John]
    • Cowley [Abraham]
    • Crashaw [Richard]
    • Creech [Thomas]
    • Cromwell [Henry]
    • Cromwel[l] [Thomas] to King Henry
    • Croxal [Samuel]
    • Cudworth [Ralph]
    • Cujas [Jacques]
  • D - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Daniel; Daniel’s Civil War [Samuel]
    • Daniel (Dr. Daniel in 4th) [Richard]
    • Davenant [Charles]
    • D'avenant [William]
    • Davies [John (Sir)]
    • Davies [John]
    • Decay of Piety; Decay [Allestree, Richard]?
    • [Defoe, Daniel] Robinson Crusoe
    • Delany [Patrick]
    • Denham [John]
    • Dennis [John]
    • Derham [William]
    • Destruction of Troy [Caxton, tr.]
    • D'Herbelot [Barthelemy]
    • Dict. [e.g. Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips]
    • Dier [Samuel Dyer]
    • Digby [Kenelm]
    • Digby [Robert]; Digby to Pope
    • Digby [George] (Lord Digby to Sir Kenelm Digby)
    • Dodderidge [Philip Doddridge]
    • Dodsley’s Miscellany; Dodsley; Dodsley’s Agriculture [Robert Dodsley]
    • Donne [John]; Don.
    • Dorset [Charles Sackville]; Buckhurst
    • Douglas [Gavin]
    • Drayton [Michael]
    • Drummond [William]
    • Dryden [John]; Poem to Roscommon; Oedipus
    • Dryden, J. jun [John]
    • Du Cange [Charles Du Fresne Du Cange]
    • Duke [Richard]
    • Duncomb’s Life of Hughes [William Duncomb]
    • Duppa [Brian]
    • Dyer [John], Dier
  • E - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Eachard [John]
    • Eachard [Laurence Echard]
    • Ellis’s Voyage [Henry]
    • Epitaph on Vanbrugh [Evans, Abel]
    • Escape of King Charles
    • Evelyn [John]
    • Expedition to Carthagena [Charles Knowles]
  • F - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Fairfax [Edward]
    • Fanshaw [Richard]
    • Farquhar [George]
    • Farrier’s Dict.
    • Felibien [Andre]
    • Fell [John]
    • Felton [Henry]
    • Fenton [Elijah]
    • Ferne [Henry] Bishop
    • Fiddes [Richard]
    • Fielding [Henry]
    • Fisher [John]
    • Fitzgerald [Thomas]
    • Flatman [Thomas]
    • Fleetwood [William]
    • Fletcher [John}
    • Fletch, P. [Phineas Fletcher]
    • Floyer [John]
    • Forbes [Duncan]
    • Fortunatus; Vent. Fort. [Venantius Fortunatus]
    • Fox [John Foxe]
    • Francis [I] of France
    • Freeholder - see Addison
    • Freind [John]; (Friend in Abstr.)
    • Fryer, John
  • G - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Garlick [Thomas
    • Garretson [John]
    • Garrick’s Epilogue [David]
    • Garth [Samuel]
    • Gay [John]
    • Geddes [Michael]
    • Gerard [John]
    • Gibson [Edmond]; Gibson’s Camden
    • Giffard [Gifford, Richard]
    • Glanville [Glanvill, Joseph]
    • Glover, Richard
    • Goldsmith, Oliver
    • Goodman [John]
    • Gouldman [Francis]
    • Government of the Tongue
    • Gower, [John]
    • Grainger [James]
    • Granville [George]
    • Graunt [John]
    • Gray [Stephen]
    • Gray [Thomas]
    • [Greek] Anthology
    • Grew [Nehemiah]
    • Grosthead, Bishop [Robert Grosseteste or Grossetete]
    • Guardian [Richard Steele, Addison]
  • H - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Hacket [John]
    • Hakewell [Hakewill, George]; Hakewill
    • Hale [Matthew]
    • Hale, Dr. [Stephen Hales]
    • Halifax [Charles Montague]
    • Hall [Joseph]
    • Hammond [Henry]; Ham.
    • Hanmer [Thomas]
    • Harrington [John]
    • Harris [John]
    • Harte [Walter]
    • Harvey [Gideon]
    • Hawkesworth [John]
    • Hayward [John]
    • Hearne [Thomas]
    • Heigh [R.]
    • Henshaw [Thomas]
    • Herbert [George]
    • Herring [Thomas]
    • Hesychius [of Alexandria]
    • Heylin [Heylyn, Peter]
    • Hickes [George]
    • Hill, Aaron
    • Hill [John]
    • Holder [William]
    • Holinsh. [Raphael Holinshed]
    • Holyday [Barten]
    • Homer
    • Hooke’s Roman History [Nathaniel]
    • Hooker [Richard]; Hook.
    • Horace
    • Hough [John]
    • Hoveden (Howden) [Roger of Hoveden]
    • Howel [Howell, James]; How.
    • Hughes’s Spenc.; Hughes [John]
  • I - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Introduction to Grammar [Garretson, John]
  • J - AUTHOR NAMES
    • James’s Voyage [Thomas]
    • Jervas [Charles]
    • Jewel [John]
    • [Johnson, Samuel] Irene, Savage’s Life, London; Rambler, Vanity of Human Wishes; Johnson (Vanity); Comment.[ary] on Pope’s Essay on Man
    • [Jonson, Benjamin] Johnson, Ben
    • Junius [Francis]
  • K - AUTHOR NAMES
    • [Kane] Cane
    • Keil [Keill, John]
    • Ken [Thomas]
    • Kennet [White Kennett]
    • Kettlewell [John]; Kettleworth
    • King [William]; King’s Cookery
    • King Charles [Charles I]
    • King James [I]
    • King James [James II; James VII of Scotland]; K. James's Declaration
    • Knolles [Richard]
  • L - AUTHOR NAMES
    • L’Acad. [Dictionnnaire l’Academie francaise]
    • Latimer [Hugh]
    • Lauderdale [John Maitland]
    • Law [William]
    • Lawrence, Dr. [Thomas]
    • Layer's Trial
    • Lee [Nathaniel]
    • [Lennox, Charlotte] Female Quixote; Shakespeare Illustrated
    • Lesley [Leslie, Charles]
    • L’Estrange [Roger]
    • Lewis [David] ; Lewis’s Miscel.
    • Lib. Londiniensis
    • Lily [William]
    • Littleton [Thomas] (also Lyttleton, de Littleton)
    • Littlet. ; Littleton, Dr. [Edward]
    • Lloyd [William]
    • Locke [John]
    • Logie
    • London Dispensatory
    • Lye [Edward]
    • [Lyttelton, George] Littleton on the Conversion of St. Paul
  • M - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Macbean [Alexander]; Macbean’s Remonstrance
    • Mackenzie [George]
    • Madden [Samuel]
    • Maine; Maine, Dr. Jasper [Mayne]
    • Malcolm [Alexander]
    • Mandeslo [Mandelslo, John Albrecht]
    • Mandeville; Maundeville [John]
    • Manger's French Grammar
    • Manwood [John]
    • Mareschal [Thomas Marshall]
    • Markham [Gervase]
    • Martial
    • Martin [Benjamin]
    • Mart. Scribl. [Martinus Scriblerus]
    • Marvel[l] [Andrew]
    • May [Thomas]
    • Mead [Richard]
    • Melmouth [William Melmoth]
    • Menage [Giles]
    • Middleton [Thomas, and Decker, Thomas]
    • Military Dict.
    • Miller [Philip]
    • Milton [John]; Par. Regained; Par. Lost
    • [Minsheu] Minshew [John]
    • Molineux [William Molyneaux]
    • Moore [Edward]; Moore’s Fables; Moore’s Foundling
    • More’s Life of Sir Thomas More [Christopher Cresacre]
    • More [Henry]
    • More [Thomas]
    • Moreton [Anne]
    • Mortimer [John]
    • Motteux [Peter Anthony]
    • Moxon [Joseph]
    • Mulso, Mrs. [Hester Chapone]
    • Murphy [Arthur]
    • Muschenbrock [Musschenbroek, Pieter van]
  • N - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Nelson [Robert]
    • Newcastle [Margaret], Dutchess [Duchess] of
    • Newton [Isaac[
    • Newton [Thomas]
    • Nicene Creed
    • Nigel de Wetekre
    • Nichols
    • Norris [John]
  • O - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Ogle [George]
    • Old Comedy
    • Old Song
    • Oldham [John]
    • Oldham’s Life [Robert Shiels/Theophilis Cibber]
    • Orrery [Charles Boyle, 4th Earl]
    • Orrery [John Boyle, 5th earl]
    • Orrery [Roger Boyle, 1st Earl]
    • Otway [Thomas]
    • Oxford Reasons Against the Covenant
    • Ozenam [Ozanam, Jacques]
  • P - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Parnel [Parnell, Thomas]
    • Pasquier [Etienne]
    • Pattison [William]
    • Peacham [Henry]
    • Pearce [Zachary]
    • Pearson [John]
    • Pemberton [Henry]
    • Perkins [William]
    • Pezron [Paul-Yves]
    • Philips [Ambrose] ; Phillips, A.
    • Phillips; [Philips, John]
    • Phillips, Edward
    • Phil. Trans.
    • Pierce [Thomas]; Pierce’s Lett.
    • Pineda [Pedro]
    • Pope [and various works][Alexander]; Pype >
      • Imitations of Horace
    • Pope, Dr. [Walter]
    • Prideaux [Humphrey]
    • Prior [Matthew]
  • Q - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Quarles [Francis]
    • Quincy [John]
  • R - AUTHOR NAMES
    • S - AUTHOR NAMES >
      • Salernum, School of
      • Salmasius [Claudius]; Saumaise [Claude]
      • Salmon’s Survey; Salmon [Nathanael]
      • [Sanderson, Robert] Saunderson; Sanderson
      • Sandys [George]; San.
      • Sappho
      • Savage [Richard]
      • Savary [Jacques Savary du Bruslon and Louis-Philemon Savary]
      • Scaliger [Joseph Justinian]
      • Scotch Proverb
      • Sea Dict. [Capt. John Smith]
      • [Sedley, Charles] Sidley
      • Seed’s Sermons [Jeremiah]
      • Selden [John]
      • Sewel [George Sewell]
      • Shadwell [Thomas]
      • Shakespeare [William]
      • Sharpe [Samuel]; Sharp.
      • Shaw [Peter]
      • Shaw; Shaw’s Gramm. [Samuel]
      • Shelvock [Shelvocke, George]
      • Sherburne [Edward]
      • Sherlock [Thomas]
      • Sidney [Philip]
      • Skelton [Philip]
      • Skinner [Stephen]
      • Smalridge [George]; Smallridge
      • Smart [Christopher]
      • Smith [Edmund]
      • Smith [John]
      • Somerville [William]
      • Somner [William]
      • Song
      • Song of the King and the Miller
      • South [Robert]
      • Southern[e]; Southerne [Thomas]
      • Sparrow, Dr. [Anthony]
      • Spectator [Addison and Steele]
      • Spelman [Henry]
      • Spenser [Edmund]; Hubberd’s Tale; Fairy Queen
      • Spratt [Sprat, Thomas]
      • Steele [Richard] to Pope
      • W - AUTHOR NAMES >
        • W____n [Waldren]
        • Wafer [Lionel]
        • Wake [William]
        • Walker [William]
        • Waller [Edmund]
        • Waller’s Life
        • Wallis [John]
        • Walsh [William]
        • Walton [Izaak]
        • Wandering Pr.[Prince] of Troy
        • Warburton [William]
        • Ward [Seth]
        • Warton’s Spencer [Thomas Warton; Wharton’s [Warton’s] Isis; Progress of Discontent
        • Wase [Christopher]
        • Waterland [Daniel]
        • Watts [Isaac]; Wat.
        • Welsted [Leonard]
        • Wesley [Samuel]
        • West [Gilbert]
        • Westmonasteriensis, Matt. [Matthew Paris]
        • White [Francis]
        • Whitgift [John]; Whitgifte
        • Whole Duty of Man; Duty of Man [Allestree?]
        • Widow and Cat
        • Wilkins [John]
        • William of Wykeham
        • Wise [Francis]
        • Wiseman [Richard]
        • Wollaston [William]
        • Wood [Anthony]
        • Woodward [John]; Woodw.
        • Wotton [Henry]
        • Wycherley [William]
        • X - AUTHOR NAMES
      • Steevens [George]
      • Stephens [William]; Stephen’s Sermons
      • Stepney [George]
      • Sternhold [Thomas]
      • Steuart
      • Stillingfleet [Edward]
      • Stone [Edmund]
      • [Strype] Memoir in Strype [John]
      • Suckling [John]
      • Swift [Jonathan]; Gulliver
      • Sylvester [Joshua]
    • Raleigh [Walter]
    • Ralph [James]
    • Ray [John]
    • Reynolds [Joshua]
    • Richards [Nathanael]; N. Richards
    • [Richardson, Samuel] Clarissa; Pamela; Richardson’s Pamela
    • Robert of Gloucester
    • [Rochester, Wilmot, 2nd Earl of]
    • Rogers [John]
    • Roscommon [Wentworth Dillon]
    • Rowe [Nicholas]
    • Rowe’s Life [?James Welwood]
    • Rowland[s] [Henry]
    • [Rudyerd, Benjamin] Rudgerd
    • Rymer [Thomas]
  • Randolph [Thomas]; T. Randolph; Tho. Randolph
  • T - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Taliessyn [Taliesen]
    • Taylor [John] the Water-poet
    • Tate [Nahum]
    • Tatler
    • Temple [William] >
      • Taylor [Jeremy]
    • Theobald [Lewis]
    • Thomson [James]
    • Topsell [Edward] Book of Animals
    • Tickel [Thomas]; Tickle
    • Trapp [Joseph]
    • Trevoux [Dictionnaire de Trevoux]
    • Tillotson [John]
    • [Trumbull, William] Trumball;Trumbull
    • Turberville [George]
    • Turnebus [Adrien Turnebe]
    • Tusser [Thomas]
  • Unattributed phrase or definition
  • Unknown correspondent (a)
  • U - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Unknown correspondent (b)
  • V - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Vanbrugh [John]
    • Virgil
    • Verses on Cleaveland
    • Verstegan (Rowlands, Richard)
  • Y - AUTHOR NAMES
    • Young [Edward]
    • Yalden [Thomas]
  • Z - AUTHOR NAMES
  • Brown[e] [Isaac Hawkins]
  • Henley [John]
  • [Trevisa] John de Trevisa
  • Knighton [Henry]
  • New Page
  • Baxter [Richard]
  • Authorities added in the 1773 Dictionary
  • Gentleman Instructed
  • John Brown
  • Upton, [John]