To the last edition (the 4th) of the folio dictionary, there is prefixed an advertisement, from which I have extracted a few lines: 'Finding my dictionary about to be reprinted, I have endeavoured by a revisal to make it less reprehensible. I will not deny that I found _many parts requiring emendation_, and _many more capable of improvement_. _Many faults_ I have corrected, some superfluities I have taken away, and some deficiencies I have supplied. I have methodised some parts that were _disordered_, and illuminated some that were _obscure_. Yet the changes or additions bear a very small proportion to the whole.' That his improvements, bear a very small proportion to the quantity of errors still in his book is true, for after a long and painful search, I have only been able to trace out ONE alteration. The word _Gazetteer_ is now defined without that insolent scurrility formerly quoted. But in this correct edition, thunder continues to be a _most bright flame_. Whig is still the name of a faction; and a Tory is said to be an adherent to the antient constitution of England. Oats, Excise, _Monarch_, &c. are all in the same stile. Nowise, _n. s._ '(_no_ and _wise_: this is commonly spoken and written by IGNORANT BARBARIANS, _noways_). Not in any manner, or degree.' Theorem, _n. s._ 'A position laid down as an acknowledged truth.' Here a schoolboy can detect the Doctor's ignorance, for every body knows that this word has the _opposite_ meaning, which is indeed evident from the quotations that are intended to exemplify it. 'Having found this the head _theorem_ of all their discourses, we hold it necessary that the _proofs_ thereof be weighed.' _Hooker._ 'Here are three _theorems_, that from thence we may draw some conclusions[148].' _Dryden._ No words can paint the Doctor's want of attention. To piss, _v. n._ (pisser Fr. pissen Dutch) 'To make water. I charge the _pissing_ conduit run nothing but claret. _Shakespeare._ One ass pisses, the rest _piss_ for company. _L'Estrange._ The wanton boys _piss_ upon your grave. _Dryden._' Whoredom, _n. s._ (from _whore_) 'Fornication. Some let go _whoredom_ as an indifferent matter. _Hale._' Whorish, _a._ (from whore) 'Unchaste, incontinent. By means of a _whorish_ woman a man is brought to a piece of bread. _Proverbs._ I had as lief you should tell me of a mess of _porridge_[149].'