This famous work is designed as a Dictionary of American and English Initials and Pseudonyms employed from the beginning of the 18th century to the present time; to which have been added some of the more recent and important Continental ones, and a few false-names, which, by a strict definition of words, would be called soubriquets. For the convenience of those using the dictionary, it may be well to state that the first part gives the initials and pseudonym, ...
