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

You will have to use your dictionary tirelessly.

"Bolt court lies on Fleet street, and it is but few steps along a narrow passage to the house, which is now a hotel, where Johnson died; but you must walk on farther through the narrow passage, a little fearful to a woman, to see the place where he wrote the dictionary.

His object was, to compile a dictionary, rather than to compose a grammar, of our language.

Secretary's desk book, by Thomas Kite Brown, Jr., including The Winston simplified dictionary, edited by William D. Lewis & Edgar A. Singer.

In 1599 Richard Percevall, Gent., published his dictionary in Spanish and English; and in the same year 'resolute John Florio' (who in his youth resided in Worcester Place, Oxford, and was matriculated at Magdalen College in 1581) brought out his Italian-English Dictionary, the World of Words, which he re-published in a much enlarged form in 1611, with dedication to the Queen of James I, as Queen Anna's New World of Words.

Knowing very little French, I bought a pocket dictionary and a copy of Racine, and, during a ten days' stay in Paris, by diligent use of the former in all my transactions, I picked up enough for the needs of travel, and, spending all my leisure over the latter, I was, before my mission was over, able to converse with considerable fluency and knew my Racine thoroughly.

"We are all making dictionaries and grammars; we have still to translate much of our religious instruction, and the great variety in dialect of the scattered tribes keeps us busy with linguistic studies.

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With respect, however, to the question concerning poetry, and composing a dictionary, I am confident that my state of Dr. Johnson's position is accurate.

" "And what is that?" "It is but to remember that I have left with Father Lamberville at Onondaga the dictionary which I have made of the Iroquois and French languages.

He brought up at the verb amo, I love, as all of us do, and by and by Nature opened her great living dictionary for him at the word filia, a daughter.

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And I read the dictionary by myself.

The three combined required no dictionary of the Academy to interpret.[AB] The future of this rich and lovely island, who can predict?

Descriptive booklet to accompany The American college dictionary.

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"I took another dictionary, and with a scissors cut out, for instance, the word ABACUS."A. B. Johnson's Plan of a Dict., p. 12.

" It is inferred that the would-be "translator" kept a dictionary at his elbow and took no chances.

But though in these works there is necessarily contained much of the material of an English dictionary, so that we can from them recover most of the current vocabulary, no one appears before the end of the sixteenth century to have felt that Englishmen could want a dictionary to help them to the knowledge and correct use of their own language.

On a small shelf lay an English dictionary and several readers.

Barbara had a way of putting heads and tails together, in defiancein aid, as she maintainedof the dictionaries.

Who has not devoured the classical dictionary before he has learned to scan the lines of Homer or of Virgil?

Of the older works we may mention the dictionaries of E. Schmid, 1788, and Mellin (in six volumes), 1797 seq., the critique of the Kantian philosophy in the first volume of Schopenhauer's chief work, 1819, and the essay of C.H. Weisse,

The eyes of men converse as much as their tongues, with the advantage, that the ocular dialect needs no dictionary, but is understood all the world over.