Dictionary of obsolete English

A fascinating handbook, not merely for the linguist and philogist, but for everyone intrigued by the colorful, the strange and the bizarre in our in our language. This definitive glossary provides the key to those terms in the English language that have either changed their meaning or been altogether discarded. Words common in the days of Chaucer, Shakespeare or Johnson...Even words known to Dickens and Browning, but today obsolete.