The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-19

uonary OF the English Language.
By j. K. WoRcEsrER, LII. d
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The execution Of this Dictionary fully answers
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comprehensive than that Of all preceding English
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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CAL foreign, obsolete, provincial, or vulgar. The
DEFINITIoNs are clear and exact, and those per-
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Of the vowel sounds than we have elsewhere met
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Dictionary. In oRrHoaRAPHy he has made no ar.
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