Index of English language words and phrases, comprising a guide to antedatings, new words, new compounds, new meanings, and other published scholarship supplementing the Oxford English dictionary and other major dictionaries - includes americanisms, slang, dialects, non-standard and geographical variations of the language, etc.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1879.

Words and Phrases enables the practitioner to have at all times the precise meaning of a particular word or phrase. Definitions are taken from the Acts of Parliament, Halsbury's Laws of England, leading textbooks and verbatim judgments from all over the Commonwealth.