Assisted in the Mathematical Part by G. Gordon; in the Botanical by P. Miller; and in the Etymological, &c. by T. Lediard, Gent. Professor of the Modern Languages in Lower Germany. Bailey (d. 1742) lexicographer, kept a boarding school at Stepney. Thirty editions of this dictionary appeared, the latest at Glasgow in 1802, and it was reprinted by various booksellers. Lord Chatham is said to have read it through twice, and Chatterton obtained many sham-antique words from Bailey. Johnson is said to have made this dictionary the foundation of his own.