Words in Dictionaries and History -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Tabula gratulatoria -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. History of dictionaries -- The Flores of Ouide (1513): An early Tudor Latin-English textbook -- Ovidian pedagogy -- Dr. John Colet and "blotterature" -- Who was Walter? -- References -- "Halles Lanfranke" and its most excellent and learned expositive table -- Introduction -- John Halle -- Most excellent and learned -- The expositive table -- Final words -- References -- John Lane's Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project -- Introduction: The First Booke of the Preservation -- The identity of the author -- The projected Verball -- References -- The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot's Dictionary (1538) -- Elyot's dictionary in its historical context -- Linking lemma and gloss in Old and Middle English word lists -- Elyot's linking of lemma and gloss -- References -- Music amidst the tumult -- Johnson and literary coinage -- Johnson in practice -- Johnson's self-omissions -- References -- Chaos and old night: A case study in quotation usage -- Chaos and old night in dictionaries of quotations -- Chaos and old night: Individual word elements -- Variation of elements -- Conscious or explicit quotation -- Political usages -- Wordplay (1): Chaos and cold night -- Wordplay (2): Chaos and old Knight -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Online dictionaries of English slang -- Introduction -- Static and dynamic online dictionaries -- The dictionaries -- The online dictionaries' coverage -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II. Word history and cultural history -- Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander's Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 A survey of Ganander's life and works -- 1.2 The sources of the Nytt Finskt Lexicon.

1.3 Collaboration with Porthan and the fate of the NFL after Ganander's death -- 2. The Old English material in the etymological sections of the NFL -- 2.1 Attested and possible sources for Ganander's Old English etymologies -- 2.2 Principles followed in presenting and discussing the material in Ganander's entries -- 2.3 Old English etymologies which are correct -- 2.4 Old English etymologies which are partly correct -- 2.5 Old English etymologies which are erroneous -- 3. Final remarks -- References -- The origin of the word yeoman -- The state of the art -- Previous attempts to explain the origin of yeoman -- The most likely etymology of yeoman: yeoman and yeomath -- the rise of yeomanry -- References -- Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Lapidable: Text and context -- 2.1 Dictionary evidence -- 2.2 Contextual evidence -- 2.3 An attempt at an explanation -- 3. Ale, toast, and literary allusions: EIC merchants and playful language -- 4. Unanswered questions, promising sources: A conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Appendix 3 -- From denominal to deverbal: Action nouns in the English suffix al -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History and morphology -- 2.1 Morphological types -- 3. Productivity and analysability -- 4. Semantics -- 4.1 1150-1300 -- 4.2 The 14th century -- 4.3 The 15th century -- 4.4 Semantics of ME nouns in ‑al: Summary -- 5. Semantics of -al in the 16th and 17th centuries -- 5.1 Ten plays by Shakespeare -- 5.2 Neologisms in ‑al in the 16th and 17th centuries -- 5.3 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1. -- The evidence of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum for the replacement of Roman names by English ones during the early Anglo-Saxon period -- References -- William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past -- Background -- The Catalogue of Honor.

Lambarde, Milles and Geþyncðo (Be leode geþincðum 7 lage) -- The Catalogue and the Textus Roffensis -- Spelling and lexis -- Conclusions -- References -- Contempt - the main growth area in the Elizabethan emotion lexicon -- Introduction -- Nature and structure of the HTE -- The field of 'Contempt': Peak years of first attestation -- The field of 'Contempt': Internal structure -- Some tentative conclusions -- Epilogue: 'Contempt' in the printed HTOED -- References -- A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay -- Inclusion and coverage of fencing terms in the OED -- A brief introduction to the history of swordplay -- Etymology and the history of swordplay -- Etymology and swordplay: measure -- Etymology and swordplay: lunge -- Swordplay in England -- Italian fencing masters in England -- Spanish influences on swordplay in England -- The stockado revisited: A note -- Conclusion -- References -- Index of subjects -- Index of personal names.