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Filed under: English language -- Semantics- Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom (revised edition; New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co., 1872), by William Swinton
- A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present (New York: Redfield, 1859), by Richard Chenevix Trench
- A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from Their Present (second edition, revised and improved; London: J. W. Parker and Son, 1859), by Richard Chenevix Trench (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.ocmo)
- Words and Idioms: Studies in the English Language (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1925), by Logan Pearsall Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
- On the Study of Words, by Richard Chenevix Trench (Gutenberg text)
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