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Recently added to Lexicons of Early Modern English 

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§  Stephen Batman,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=1290> "A note of
Saxon wordes" (1581) 

§  Edmund Bohun,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=1208> Geographical
Dictionary (1693): 11,681 word-entries 

§  Richard Boothby,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=417> A Brief
Discovery or Description of the Most Famous Island of Madagascar (1646) 

§  Thomas Dekker,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=689> O per se O
(1612) 

§  John Heydon, "A Chymical Dictionary
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=635> " (English;
1662): 70 word-entries. 

§  Gregory Martin,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=163> The New
Testament of the English College of Rheims (1582) 

§  Gerhard Mercator,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=380> Historia Mundi
Or Mercator's Atlas (1635) 

§  Guy Miège,  <http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=560>
A New Dictionary French and English, with another English and French (1677):
18,376 word-entries, 73,641 sub-entries 

§  John Ogilby,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=544> Asia, the First
Part (1673) 

§  John Rider,  Bibliotheca Scholastica
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=186>
(English-Latin, 1589): 42,000 word-entries and sub-entries. 

§  Richard Rowlands,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=281> A Restitution
of Decayed Intelligence in Antiquities (1605; Richard Verstegan; text
replaced by an extended and analyzed version) 

§  Nicholas Stone,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=415> Enchiridion of
Fortification (1645) 

§  John Thorie,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=238> The Theatre of
the Earth (1601; place-names): 3,100 word-entries. 

§  John Turner,
<http://leme.library.utoronto.ca/lexicons/record.cfm?id=112> A Book of Wines
(1568) 

Coming soon to LEME  

§  Ortus Vocabulorum (Latin-English, 1500): 25,500 word-entries. 

§  Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary (1647): 33,000
word-entries. 

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from the beginning of printing in England to 1702, as well as tools updated
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200 Searchable lexicons

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665 354 Total word entries

445 779 Fully analyzed word entries

574 231 Total analyzed forms and subforms

445 780Total analyzed forms

128 451 Total analyzed subforms

60 891 Total English modern headwords

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