The Public School Word-book

📙 A Contribution to a Historical Glossary of Words, Phrases and Turns of Expression Obsolete and in Present Use Peculiar to our Great Public Schools Together with Some that Have Been or Are Modish at the Universities. First published in 1900. Farmer (1854-1916) was a lexicographer best-known for his 7-volume dictionary of slang published from 1890-1904.