The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-08
Worcester'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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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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best English authorities In relation to words differ
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