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GLOSSAEY.
The following glossary relies almost entirely npoii
original authorities ; upon a collation of the manuscript
ancient extant glossaries with their printed
editions, which have been falsified by ignorant conjectures
; and upon a careful examination of many
Saxon volumes never yet published. No reliance has
been placed on modern productions, in the way of
dictionaries ; they will be found full of errors.^ Every
article either supplies a deficiency or corrects an error
but our limits will not admit of the insertion of every
correction prepared for the press. Corrections wei/e, of
course, to be accompanied by their proofs, and this adds
to the length of the various articles. Some refer to
genders or declensions or terminations, for an exact
knowledge of our Oldest English is impossible, as long
as students are deceived on these elementary points.
The most important printed texts of Saxon works have
been collated from beginning to end, letter by letter,
with the original manuscripts. The modern editions in
particular are, sometimes, very faulty.
In the names of plants the reader will
observe that
a name, liowever wrong, is
within its own bounds, still
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See Shrine (Williams and Norgate).