English and Tamil Dictionary, containing all the more important words in Dr. Webster's Dictionary of the English language

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ENGLISH AND TAMIL
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DICTIONARY;
CONTAINING ALL
THE MORE IMPORTANT WORDS
IN
WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,
OR.
SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED.
Jaffna:
AMERICAN MISSION PRESS—T. S. BURNELL, PRINTER.
1852.
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• *
PREFACE.
In preparing this second edition of the English and Tamil Dictionary, all
the words in Dr. Webster's complete work, which are thought to be of practical
utility to missionaries or civilians among the Tamil people, or to Tamil youth
who are studying the English language, have been most carefully added to the
old edition, and each word defined by one or more Tamil synonyms.
The different shades of signification and some idioms are arranged under each
word, forming, to a considerable extent, a substitute for a phrase book. As the
words are divided, accentuated, and defined according to Dr. Webster's latest
edition, the work will be to all Tamil lads who study English, to a great degree, a
substitute for an English Dictionary.
The Tamil synonyms may be depended upon, with a very few unavoidable
exceptions, as gopd classic words, which are generally arranged so that those most
common are placed first.
Mathematical, astronomical, and other scientific words, are those taken from
native works, as far as such works have been examined, and in foreign words, the
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synonyms are made from pure Tamil or Sanscrit combinations. single word is
always preferred to a description.
In a very few cases, where it was thought the learner would be assisted, repeti-
tions have been allowed.
This edition contains thirty-six thousand seven hundred and thirty-seven Eng-
lish words, being an enlargement of eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-four
over the first edition and sixteen thousand five hundred and eighteen significations
;
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and uses of words an increase, in this particular, offour thousand four hundred
and ninety-seven. Not only as to enlargement, but in respect to accuracy of defi-
nition, division, and arrangement ofthe different significations, this edition is believ-
ed to be a great improvement upon the previous one.
OoDooviLLE, Jan. 1852,
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