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ENGLISH AND TAMILvV--.

DICTIONARY;CONTAINING ALL

THE MORE IMPORTANT WORDSIN

OR.

WEBSTER'S DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE,

SECOND EDITION, ENLARGED AND REVISED.

Jaffna:AMERICAN MISSION PRESS T.1852.S.

BURNELL, PRINTER.

*

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 practicalutility 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 accordingedition, the

to Dr.

Webster's latest

work

will

be to

all

Tamil lads who study English, to a great degree, a

substitute for

an English Dictionary.with a very few unavoidable

The Tamil synonyms may be depended upon,

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 fromnative works, as far as such works have been examined,

and

in foreign

words, the

synonyms are made from pure Tamil or Sanscrit combinations.always preferred to a description.In a very few cases, wheretionsit

A

single

word

is

was thought

the learner would be assisted, repeti-

have been allowed.thirty-six

This edition containslish

thousand seven hundred and thirty -seven Eng-

words, being an enlargement of eight thousand nine hundred and eighty-fourfirst

over the

edition

;

and sixteen thousand

five

hundred and eighteen

significations

and uses of words

an

increase, in this particular, offour thousandto

four hundreddefi-

and ninety-seven.nition, division,

Not only as

enlargement, but in respect to accuracy ofdifferent significations, this editionis

and arrangement of the

believ-

ed to be a great improvement upon the previous one.

OoDooviLLE, Jan.

1,

1852,

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