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Excerpt from A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, Vol. 8: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society; Q, R; S-Sh
This half-volume contains the words which begin with Q and R, the former being few in number in comparison with the latter. W'hen reckoned up according to the system adopted for previous letters, Q found to include 1633 Main words, 265 Combinations explained under these, and 423 Subordinate entries of obsolete or variant forms; in all 2321. The obvious Combinations, recorded and illustrated by quotations, but not requiring to be Cxplained, number 408 more. Of the Main words, 339 are marked T as obsolete, and 56 are marked H as alien or not fully naturalized. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
