The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-11-14
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.
BY. E. WoncrsrEn, LII. D

Df y . L. w oECEsTER, LII. ~
One uoI,i,ns, suo. sheep, 1882 pages-Priee SO so
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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DEFINITIONS are clear and exact and those per-
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of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
with, together with his plan of exhibiting all the
best English authorities in relation to words differ
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Dictionary. In oRTHooRAPHY he has made no ar
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reduce TO the rules words of similar forma-
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