PART I.

BOOKS OF REFERENCE.

Crabb's "English Synonymes Explained." [H.]

Soule's "Dictionary of English Synonyms." [L.]

Smith's "Synonyms Discriminated." [BELL.]

Graham's "English Synonyms." [A.]

Whateley's "English Synonyms Discriminated." [L. & S.]

Campbell's "Handbook of Synonyms." [L. & S.]

Fallows' "Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms." [F. H. R.]

Roget's "Thesaurus of English Words." [F. & W. CO.]

Trench's "Study of English Words." [W. J. W.]

Richard Grant White, "Words and their Uses," and "Every Day English." [H. M. & CO.]

Geo. P. Marsh, "Lectures on the English Language," and "Origin and History of the English Language." [S.]

Fitzedward Hall, "False Philology." [S.]

Maetzner's "English Grammar," tr. by Grece. [J. M.]

The Synonyms of the Century and International Dictionaries have also been consulted and compared.

The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary has been used as the authority throughout.

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ABBREVIATIONS USED.

A. D. Appleton & Co. | K.-F. Krauth-Fleming AS. Anglo-Saxon | "Vocabulary of Philosophy." BELL; B. & S. Bell & Sons | L. Latin; Lippincott & Co. F. French | L. & S. Lee & Shepard F. H. R. Fleming H. Revell | M. Murray's New English Dictionary F. & W. CO. Funk & Wagnalls Co. | MACM. Macmillan & Co. G. German | S. Chas. Scribner's Sons Gr. Greek | Sp. Spanish H. Harper & Bros. | T. & F. Ticknor & Fields H. M. & CO. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. | T. & H. Troutman & Hayes It. Italian | T. & M. Taylor, Walton & Maberley J. M. John Murray | W. J. W. W. J. Widdleton