The imperial dictionary and encyclopedia of knowledge, unabridged

Etymological and pronouncing, literary, scientific and technical. Containing a full vocabulary with numerous colloquialisms and phrases, and notes on synonyms. Pronouncing lists of proper names; foreign words and phrases; abbreviations, key to noted names in fiction, mythology, etc.; alphabetical list of writers of english; with dates and death; pronouncing vocabulary of greek, latin; scriptural and other ancient names; pronouncing vocabulary of modern geographical names. Select pronouncing list of modern biographical names. Words, phrases, and noteworthy sayings from the latin, greek and modern languages met with in current english; abbreviations and contractions commonly used in writing and printing; forms of address in ceremonies, communications with persons of title or official position; principal moneys of the world, and their equivalents or approximate equivalents in english currency; constitution of the United States of America. Charles Annandale, M.A. LL.D., and The dictionary of statistics of the world of the following: Age, agriculture, army, astronomy, balloon, banks, botany, bridges, burials, butter, beetroot, bells, birds, births, cities, clans, civil service, coal, commerce, curiosities, customs, death, depopulation, dairy, diet, disease, divorce, distances, education, electricity emigration, fasting, finance, food, forests, freights, fruits, gold and silver, grain, ice, income, iron, insurance, irrigation, kangaroo, koumiss, kings, laborer, lace, lakes, land, libraries, life, lighthouse, lightning, living, cost of manufactures, maize, machinery, mining, money monuments, murder, music, names, nations, navy, night, nobles, occupation, population, pictures, pins, placards, police, prices, prostitution, protection, public works, quakers, quicksilver, rabbits, railways, religion, ransom, seamen, servants, science, shipping, steam power, squares, statistics, tide, time, tobacco, toys, trade union, wages, wars, wealth of nations, weight, wheat, windmills, wink, wool. By Michael G. Mulhall, Fellow of the Royal Physical Society, member of the Committee of the British Association, honorary corresponding member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society, author of „The progress of the world,“ „The history of prices,“ etc.

With numerous colored diagrams