The republic., 1851-10-31
Worcester's Universal and Critical Die
tionary OF the English Language.


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AUTHoRIrIEs with respect to words newly intro
duced and care is taken to note such aretechnl-
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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