Dictionary of the Canting Crew (by B.E. gent., 1696): 'Top.

You may afterwards consult a dictionary for means of checking up on what you have done.

'The real cause of my surprise was what appeared to me much more paradoxical, that he could write a sheet of dictionary with as much pleasure as a sheet of poetry.

If such a belief is not fanaticism then have I read Webster's Unabridged Dictionary in vain.

You need not track every word in the dictionary to the den of its remote parentage.

And indeed it seems not very probable, that he who so pathetically laments the drudgery to which the unhappy lexicographer is doomed, and is known to have written his splendid imitation of Juvenal with astonishing rapidity, should have had 'as much pleasure in writing a sheet of a dictionary as a sheet of poetry.'

Add to each word-group as many cognate words as you can (1) think of for yourself, (2) find in the dictionary by looking under the key-syllable.

See also Thomas Stanley's History of Philosophy, and the articles in Smith's Dictionary on the leading ancient philosophers.

The English dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755, by DeWitt T. Starnes and Gertrude S. Noyes.

Sir Edwin Arnold has done it up both in prose and poetry, and sprawled all over the dictionary without conveying the faintest idea of its glories and loveliness.

I knew she meant peanuts,otherwise "ground-peas" and "goobers,"and now that I once more have a dictionary at my elbow I learn that the word, like "goober," is, or is supposed to be, of African origin.

The lesson was a timely one, and we hope that it may prove effective, since we frequently hear perplexed inquirers complaining that their education has been neglected so far as slang is concerned, and lamenting that, when young, they had not devoted themselves rather to the study of the Thieves' Dictionary than to that of the polite but comparatively useless treatises on their native tongue.

Johnson refers, I suppose, to a passage in Dryden which he quotes in his Dictionary under mechanick:'Many a fair precept in poetry is like a seeming demonstration in mathematicks, very specious in the diagram, but failing in the mechanick operation.'

The title which I prefix to my work has long conveyed a very miscellaneous idea, and they that take a dictionary into their hands, have been accustomed to expect from it a solution of almost every difficulty.

The definition of a "sable," as given in the dictionary above cited is, "A young lady anxious to please."]

" We spread the open sheet upon the library-table, and laid the folded paper near by, and, sitting side by side, with a dictionary before us, we went to work.

Jim, who was twice expelled from school, and who could never write a letter without a dictionary beside him!

Perfection is unattainable, but nearer and nearer approaches may be made; and, finding my Dictionary about to be reprinted, I have endeavoured, by a revisal, to make it less reprehensible.

He piqued himself on having early seen that a man ought to have an object to which to devote his whole life"be it a dictionary like Johnson's or a history like Gibbon's"and on having discerned and chosen his own object.

Unfortunately for me, Ollendorff had not yet published his thefts from Manesca; and instead of that brisk little war of question and answer, which loosens the tongue so readily to strange sounds and forms the memory so promptly to the combinations of a new idiom, I had to struggle on through the scanty rules and multitudinous exceptions of grammar, and pick my way with the help of a dictionary through the harmonious sentences of "Télémaque.

"We've cut it out of the dictionary up my way.