8 Verbs to Use for the Word lexicon

Or, were it best, Brooding o'er lexicons to pass the day, And in that labour drudge my life away? Such is the picture for which Dr. Johnson sat to himself.

Only once had he to consult a Greek lexicon for the meaning of a word; and then it turned out that the meaning he had assigned to it provisionally was the right one.

Last night they had dredged the lovers' lexicon for superlatives and not even blushed; to-day is that the heavens cracking or merely someone whispering "dear"?

Whenever the gray-headed men who knew him used to sit about, relating anecdotes of himas, how many commentaries he published, or how he introduced the first German lexicon into this country (as if a girl in short dresses would be absorbingly interested in her grandfather's dictionaries!)I saw the silver mug and the coffin.

HESYCHIUS, a Greek grammarian of the 5th century, born at Alexandria; produced a Greek lexicon of great philological value.

In your final work on a passage you should aim at a faultless rendition, and should spend time and ransack the lexicons rather than come short of this ideal.

You should revise your lexicon.

I wrote out a small lexicon of Arabian and Persian words, and took leave of this hospitable family at sunset, on the 8th of July.

8 Verbs to Use for the Word  lexicon