Heath's French and English dictionary

COMPILED FROM THE BEST AUTHORITIES IN BOTH LANGUAGES
REVISED AND CONSIDERABLY ENLARGED
BY JAMES BOÏELLE, B. A. (Univ. Gall.) OFFICIER D’ACADÉMIE, LATELY EXAMINER IN FRENCH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF “LA SOCIÉTÉ DES GENS DE LETTRES DE FRANCE,” ETC., ETC.
AIDED BY de V. PAYEN-PAYNE ASSISTANT-EXAMINER IN FRENCH IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON PRINCIPAL OF KENSINGTON COACHING COLLEGE AUTHOR OF “FRENCH IDIOMS AND PROVERBS”
D. C. HEATH & CO., Publishers BOSTON, NEW YORK, CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1903, BY WILLIAM T. BELDING. ENTERED AT STATIONERS’ HALL, LONDON.


When I was asked to undertake the preparation of this French Dictionary, I had no idea of the formidable nature of the task that lay before me. It was obvious, of course, that a very great deal would have to be done to bring up to date a dictionary of a living language that is ever growing, and in which new words and new meanings of words are being coined almost daily. But I found, in the course of the four and a half years during which I have been engaged upon the work, that it assumed proportions altogether undreamt of, and that I was virtually producing a new work.
Perhaps I may be permitted to direct attention to some of the features which distinguish the new edition.
Many thousands of new words and phrases, idioms and idiomatic expressions, proverbs and proverbial expressions, have been included. In a great many instances chapter and verse have been given. Two hundred columns of print have been added to the book.