Spiers and surenne's french and english pronouncing dictionary. Newly composed from the french dictionaries of the French Academy, Laveaux, Boiste, Bescherelle, Landais etc., and from the english dictionaries of Johnson, Webster, Worcester, Richardson, etc. Containing a great number of words not both languages now in use, as well as those, now obsolete, but employed by the carlier classic writers;- 2 The principal terms connected with navigation and military tactics, the sciences, the arts, manufactures and trade, especially those contained in the Dictionary of the French Academy;.- 3 The compounds of words that most frequently occur, particulary such as are not literally translated;- 4. The various equivalents of the words in their logical order, separated by numbers;- 5.- Short sentences and expressions illustrating such acceptations as present any difficulty to the student;- 6. The modifications which the meanings of words undergo, on the addition of adjetives, prepositions, adverbs, etc.- 7. The principal idioms and familiar phrases;- 8 The prepositions used after verbs, adjetives, etc.- 9. The irregularities of verbs, of adjetives, of the plurals of nouns, etc;- 10. Sigus distinguishing between the literal and figurative use of words, showing whether they are antiquated or rarely employed, and the style to which they belong: followed by a complete vocabulary of the names of places ans persons, mythological and classical, ancient and modern / by A. Spiers, professor of english at the National College of Bonaparte (Paris) and the National School of Civil engineers, etc. Carefully revised, corrected, and enlarged, with the pronunciation of each word according to the system of Surenne's pronouncing dictionary; together with the irregular parts of all the irregular verbs, in alphabetical order; the principal french synonymes; important additional definitions, illustrations, idioms, phrases, and grammatical remarks; and four thousand new words of general literature, and modern science and art: by G. P. Quackenbos, A. M.