The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-12-06
WOreester's Universal and Critical DIE
tIOnary OF the English Language
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AUTHORITIES with respect to words newly intro
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DEFINITIONS 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 oRTHoeRAPHY he has made no ar
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reduce to the same rules words of similar forma-
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