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WEBSTER'S
NEW DlCYAO% ARM


scripton an AMERICAN DICTIONARY Of
of the English language. BrNoA WEBSTER,
L. L. ID.
This Dictionary will contain such parts OF the
best English Dictionaries as are well executed,
with the following Improvements:
l. additional Words. The new words which
the great advances in the physical sciences,
within the last forty or fifty years, have enrich
ed the language, and which are not inserted
in Johnson's Dictionary, nor the late improved
edition by Todd, amount to five or six thou
sand. These, with the participles and other
words added, will augment the vocabulary
with nearly twenty thousand words
Q. Precise and Technical Definitions. The
Dictionaries hitherto published are almost ex-
clusvely translating dictionaries, in which one
word is defined by another that is synony-
nous, or nearly SO. OF this kind of dictiona-
ries and lexicons, we have many of great ex-
| cellence. But if there is any dictionary of
| the English language, OF price which places
it within the means of purchase which teach
ers in general possess, in which definitions are
sufficiently accurate, discriminating and tech
| nical, that work has not come to the knowl-
edge of the author OF the proposed Dictlona.
ry. The precision OF definitions in this work
will, it is believed, supercede the necessity OF
book of synyms.
~ .f"ot"0INo1 osSHJ'eee'""e' hAN oi6 "i'N
tons and distinct applications OF EnghSn
words, which are omitted by all the English
photographers, and are inserted in this work,
amount to between thirty and fifty thousand.
Many OF these are among the most important
senses IN which the words are used.
4. .NezO Chronological Deductions and ATM.
mites. The obscurity which has rested on This
subject, and which has brought IT into dlscre"
! dit, will be, in good degree, disslpated by the
authors researches, and etymologY VIII be
made subservent to the Illustration not only
| OF words, but OF history. 1his part OF Inc
work Is the result OF ten years examinauonp
and comparison OF the principal radical words
| in the following languages the Chatdee, SR-
| '7ac, Hebrez9, .4raotc, Samaritan, EnnoP'c, and
Peratc, in Asla and Africa, and in Europe, the
Gaeac or H'oe'7o- Celtic, .4ngio- Sdron, EEgfash,
German, Dutch, Szoedisn, Darush, Greek, L0;in,
Italian, Spanish, French, Russ, Gothic, Mesh,
| and .7rmof1c. 1t is found that all these Ian
| guages serve to illustrate each other and are
useIui IN eiucldaung the EnShsn. synopsis
OF the pflncipai words IN the languages mas
oeen computed, and VIII De published, II SUM-
Gent patronage can hereafter be oo'ained'
| In the mean time, the results OF this labor,
which will appear in the Dictionary, will pre-
sent, on this subject, interesting views OF the
history and aftinlties OF these languages, winch
| nave escaped the opserVatioh Oh european
| photographers.
5. The peculiar scriptural uses OF words,
most OF which are omitted by English authors
| OF dictionaries are explained and exemphhed.
o. The words beginning with are separat-
ed from those which begin with !, as are those
winch oegln with Y from those winch begin
with y.
Z. obsolete words, and words OF local use,
are noted as such, and the different aprlca.
tons OF words in England and III the United
States, are speclhed as tar as they are known.
The obsolete words include all that have been
found IN books from the age OF Cover, and
the law terms from the Norman French.
o. Inc different sgnitlcatIons or alpica.
tlons or words, when not OBVIOUS and Wen
known, are Illustrated by some snort passage
IRON an author OF reputation, or by brief fa'
miilar sentence. EXemphhcations, however,
are not multiplied under each definition, as
the most Judlclous scholars consider one eX-
ample as sufficient, and numerous extracts
from books serve only to swell the size and
price OF dictionary. American writers OF
reputation are placed on footing with Eng
iisn WRITER'S and cited as authorities.
Many errors, winch nave escaped the no"