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Among the latter may be mentioned _A Provincial Glossary_, by F.Grose, London, 1787, second edition 1790; _Supplement to the same_, by the late S.Pegge, F.S.A., London, 1814; and _Glossary of Archaic and Provincial_ _Words_, by the late Rev.J.Boucher, ed.
Hunter and Stevenson, 1832-3.
The last of these was attempted on a large scale, but never got beyond the word _Blade_; so that it was practically a failure.
The time for producing a real Dialect Dictionary had not yet come; but the valuable _Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language_, by J.Jamieson, published at Edinburgh in 4 vols., 4to, in 1808-25, made an excellent beginning. The nineteenth century not only accumulated for our use a rather large number of general works on Dialects, but also a considerable quantity of works illustrating them separately.
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