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Worccster's Universal and Critical DIE
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The execution Of this Dictionary fully answers
10 its title. The VOCABULARY is probably more
comprehensive than that of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect 10 words newly intro
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CAL foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar The
DEFINITIONS clear and exact, and those per-
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of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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emily pronounced by different orthoepists, gives to
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iuctuatng, he has aimed to be consistent, and to
reduce To the same rules words OF similar lorna
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