WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT
\wˈɒltə wˈɪli͡əm skˈiːt], \wˈɒltə wˈɪliəm skˈiːt], \w_ˈɒ_l_t_ə w_ˈɪ_l_iə_m s_k_ˈiː_t]\
Definitions of WALTER WILLIAM SKEAT
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- 1910 - Warner's dictionary of authors ancient and modern
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A distinguished English Anglo-Saxon scholar, philologist, and lexicographer; born in London, Nov. 21, 1835. He is professor of Anglo-Saxon at Cambridge (from 1883); one of the founders of the English Dialect Society; and an authority on early English literature. He has edited "The Vision of William concerning Piers Ploughman" (1867-85); Barbour's "The Bruce" (1870-89); "Specimens of English Literature, 1298-1579" (1871 and 1872); numerous poems, metrical romances, etc.; and has compiled "An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language" (4 vols., 1879-81; new ed. 1884), his chief work. One of his recent publications is an edition of Chaucer (6 vols., 1894); "Notes on English Etymology".
By Charles Dudley Warner
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