Authority Cited: Dict.
Author name and dates: SJ Preface says this is dictionaries collectively and mentions Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips
BKG Bio-tweet: See entries under Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips, Stone
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. A hand count by de Vries indicates 818 Dict. cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and 326 in Dict. vol. 2. Eight headwords were identified by de Vries as added with a Dict. cite in the 1773 Dict. (p. 240). Per de Vries, a vast majority of the Dict. citation headwords appear in Bailey, but 20% and 30% also in Ainsworth and Philips, respctively, but less than half of the Dict. citation definitions are traced to Bailey. Some unattributed definitions may be from one of the sources below. An unattributed definition for nadir appears to be from Bailey. Thanks to Alexander Bocast for tracking down the nadir example.]
Author name and dates: SJ Preface says this is dictionaries collectively and mentions Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips
BKG Bio-tweet: See entries under Bailey, Ainsworth, Phillips, Stone
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: For a detailed and definitive discussion of SJ's citations of Ainsworth, Bailey, Philips, and Dict., see In the Tracks of a Lexicographer, Secondary Documentation in Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language (1755), Catharina M. de Vries, 1994, Leiden. A hand count by de Vries indicates 818 Dict. cites in 1755 Dict. vol. 1 and 326 in Dict. vol. 2. Eight headwords were identified by de Vries as added with a Dict. cite in the 1773 Dict. (p. 240). Per de Vries, a vast majority of the Dict. citation headwords appear in Bailey, but 20% and 30% also in Ainsworth and Philips, respctively, but less than half of the Dict. citation definitions are traced to Bailey. Some unattributed definitions may be from one of the sources below. An unattributed definition for nadir appears to be from Bailey. Thanks to Alexander Bocast for tracking down the nadir example.]
- Dictionarium Britanicum: Or a more Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary, N. Bailey, 2nd Ed., 1736
- New world of Words, Edward Phillips, (ed. used uncertain, likely 1706 or 1720 editions edited by Kersey, per de Vries)
- Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Compendius, Robert Ainsworth, 1736 (ed. used uncertain; de Vries is inclined to SJ's use of the 1746, 1751, or 1752 edition of Ainsworth's Thesaurus.)
- Lexicon Physico-Medicum or a New Medicinal Dictionary. John Quincy; dysentery; peritoneum; (per de Vries, p. 222)
- The Sportsman's Dictionary: or, the country gentleman's companion, in all rural recreations: With full and particular Instructions for Hawking, Hunting, Fowling, Setting, Fishing, Racing, Riding, Cocking. With the Method of breeding, curing, dieting, and ordering of Horses, Dogs, Pigeons, Cocks, &c. Extracted from the most celebrated English and French authors, Ancient, and Modern: With Large Improvements, made by several Gentlemen well experienced in these noble Exercises. Illustrated with near thirty copper-plates, representing the different kinds of Nets, Engines, and Traps, that are made use of in taking all sorts of Game. ... Vol. I, Vol. II. 1735, London : printed for C. Hitch, at the Red Lion, and C. Davis, both in Pater-Noster-Row; and S. Austen, at the Angel and Bible in St Paul's Church-Yard; vessignon (per de Vries, p. 222) [BKG Note: This (vessignon) is more likely taken from the Farrier's Dictionary, the definitiion for which, as de Vries notes, only differs by "hough" in the Farrier's Dict. vs "hoof" in the Sportsman's Dict. I suspect that SJ translated to the more common "hoof."]
- New Mathematical Dictionary, Edmund Stone (1743); focus (per de Vries, p. 223)
- Cyclopædia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences, Ephraim Chambers (1741); abbreuvoir; areotic; arrentation; ascii; bulimy; cuneform-bones; degree; fougade; lee; quadripartition; subtangent (per de Vries, p. 222)
- Dict. (no work cited); per de Vries, (p. 240) the following, non-exhaustive, list of headwords citing Dict. were added in the 1773 Dict.: gibstaff; outrider; range; refret; shruff; surpassable; surpassingly; swash [BKG Note: almost all of these additions are new headwords. The definitions were not found in Phillips, Bailey or several other Dictionionaries of the 17th and 18th century. The definition for refret ("The burden of a song") was found in Glossographia Anglicana Nova, 1719. Ainsworth gives "The burden of a song" as "versus intercalaris." The definition of swash ("Impulse of water flowing with violence") is possibly a translation of Ainsworth's Latin ("Aquae magna copia fluentis impetus"). My examination of the 1773 Dict. did not identify any additional "Dict." cites in the 1773 Dict. beyond those listed by de Vries.]