It is to such a process as this that we owe the glossaries which form an interesting branch of Anglo-Saxon literature.
"Anglo-Saxon Literature"
John Earle
To verify these views we want not a general dictionary of the Scottish language taken altogether, but a series of local glossaries, or at any rate a vocabulary, 1st, of the northern; 2ndly, of the southern Scottish.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham
He extended it by copying into it vocabularies and glossaries borrowed from other scholars; he lent his own collection to be similarly copied by others.
"The evolution of English lexicography"
James Augustus Henry Murray