1. Tabula gratulatoria; 2. Preface (by Vancil, David E.); 3. Introduction (by Timofeeva, Olga); 4. Part I. History of dictionaries; 5. The Flores of Ouide (1513): An early Tudor Latin-English textbook (by Lancashire, Ian); 6. "Halles Lanfranke" and its most excellent and learned expositive table (by Tyrkko, Jukka); 7. John Lane's Verball: A lost Elizabethan dictionary project (by Considine, John); 8. The linking of lemma to gloss in Elyot's Dictionary (1538) (by Stein, Gabriele); 9. Music amidst the tumult (by Goodland, Giles); 10. Chaos and old night: A case study in quotation usage (by Knowles, Elizabeth); 11. Online dictionaries of English slang (by Coleman, Julie); 12. Part II. Word history and cultural history; 13. Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander's Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) (by Kilpio, Matti); 14. The origin of the word yeoman (by Liberman, Anatoly); 15. Early East India Company merchants and a rare word for sex (by Kaislaniemi, Samuli); 16. From denominal to deverbal: Action nouns in the English suffix -al (by Lloyd, Cynthia); 17. A gente Anglorum appellatur: The evidence of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum for the replacement of Roman names by English ones during the early Anglo-Saxon period (by Hall, Alaric); 18. William Lambarde and Thomas Milles in search of the golden past (by Kahlas-Tarkka, Leena); 19. Contempt: The main growth area in the Elizabethan emotion lexicon (by Diller, Hans-Jurgen); 20. A lexical skirmish: OED3 and the vocabulary of swordplay (by Pendragon, Joshua); 21. Index of subjects; 22. Index of personal names