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this standard dictionary.
The execution of this binary fully answers
to its title. The VocABULi is probably more
comprehensive than that of preceding English
Dictionaries united. Consta,eference is made To
AuTHoRIrEs with respect ttords newly intro
duced, and care is taken to nsuch as are techni-
cal, foreign, obsolete, provill, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIONS are clear and ct and those per-
tanning to technical and sctifc terms are spe-
cially valuable TO the generakader The author
has evidently bestowed grca0or ON PRoNUScIA-
TIoN. His system of Notatio<hich is easily
derstood, and founded on incomplete analysis
of the vowel sounds than wave elsewhere met
with, together with his plalt exhibiting all the
best English authorities In rebn to words differ
emily pronounced by diftercnf hoepists, gives to
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Dictionary. In oRTHoGRAPHe has made no ar
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Elections of words to much scater extent than
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ton, and the peculiar, technicapcal, and Ameri-
can uses of words interspersed tbugh the volume,
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pious Vocabulary of Modern Ggraphical names,
and improved edition of Walks Key to the pro-
nunciation of Classical and ScriIc proper names,
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