The word itself means two things: a government by the best and most able citizens and, to quote a standard dictionary "Persons noted for superiority in any character or quality, taken collectively."

SELL, LEWIS L. English-French comprehensive technical dictionary of the automobile and allied industries.

He was a walking biographical and statistical dictionary of all the affairs of the good folks of Mapleton.

The comprehensive standard dictionary of the English language.

New handy dictionary.

The practical standard dictionary of the English language.

Hortus; a concise dictionary of gardening, general horticulture and cultivated plants in North America, compiled by L. H. Bailey and Ethel Zoe Bailey.

HOLT, RINEHART & WINSTON, INC. SEE New universal self-pronouncing dictionary of the English language.

SELL, LEWIS L. English-Spanish comprehensive technical dictionary of aircraft, automobile.

The golden dictionary.

New ideal dictionary.

Marcel, who had repainted the picture ten times, and minutely gone over it from top to bottom, vowed that only a personal hostility on the part of the members of the jury could account for the ostracism which annually turned him away from the Salon, and in his idle moments he had composed, in honor of those watch-dogs of the Institute, a little dictionary of insults, with illustrations of a savage irony.

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No, Rudolph; I can't help it if the vinaigretted beauties of your boyhood were unabridged dictionaries of prudery.

That night, as old travellers phrase it, we lay at Waverly, on the frontier of Pennsylvania, a sad, dirty little town, grotesquely belying its romantic name, and only surpassed in squalor by the classically named Athensbeware, reader, of American towns named out of classical dictionaries!

I had purchased an English-French conversational dictionary, and I went there every night to take a language lesson.

Psychiatric dictionary with encyclopedic treatment of modern terms.

EDGERTON, HAROLD A. Statistical dictionary of terms and symbols.

Army talk; a familiar dictionary of soldier speech.

"Adelung was the author of a grammatical and critical dictionary of the German language, and other works.

pub. abroad, 1939; adapted from Short philosophic dictionary, by H. Rosenthal & P. Yudin.

For forty years after its first publication editions of Bailey followed each other as rapidly as ever; numerous new dictionaries of the size and character of Bailey, often largely indebted to Johnson's definitions, appeared.

"In the earlier period of the invention it was a matter which experience alone could determine whether the numerical system, by means of a numbered dictionary, or the alphabetic mode, by spelling of the words, was the better.

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International maritime dictionary.