What the proportion of such words really is may be ascertained from the dictionary which will follow this work.
TRASH is derived by Mr Wedgwood (Dictionary of English Etymology, 1872) from the old word trousse, signifying the clipping of trees.
I have found, on questioning a Persian gentleman, that he knew the meaning of many Rommany words from their resemblance to vulgar Persian, though they were not in the Persian dictionary which I used.
It was not necessary for the author of the Slang Dictionary to go to the banks of the Danube for the origin of a word which is in the mouths of all English Gipsies, and which was brought to England by their ancestors.
The location of various classes of reference books should be pointed out, the differences between a dictionary and an encyclopaedia explained, and the various types of both commented upon.
Dictionary of dates and universal information relating to all ages and nations.
Early in the school year the librarian ought to meet the new students and explain to them in the reading-room the grouping of the books and the fundamental principles underlying the making of a dictionary card catalogue.
This fact is the chief argument for a dictionary arrangement in a card catalog where authors, subjects, titles and cross references are arranged in one alphabet, as in a dictionary.
And nothing is better than reference to a few words in a dictionary for the clear statement of a question.
The Academy undertook a revision of its work in 1700; and, finally, profiting by the public opinion on which it endeavoured to act, rendered this dictionary the most received standard of the French language.
In Todd’s edition of Johnson’s Dictionary this sense is not mentioned.
It is true that all this farrago arises out of one passage in Victor of Utica, and Barthius is far from being so desultory as Turnebus: but 3000 columns of such notes make but a dictionary without the help of the alphabet.
But the dictionary of the Academy, which was published in 1694, claimed an authority to which that of a private man could not pretend.
Ward and Lock’s Standard Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.
Whatever may have been the delinquency, moral or legal, of this compiler, his dictionary is praised by Goujet as a rich treasure, in which almost everything is found that we can desire for a sound knowledge of the language.
Every local preacher should place this dictionary in his study, and every Sunday-school teacher should have it for reference.
Altogether, for its size it will be found the most complete popular dictionary of our language yet published.
I possess a dictionary in Welsh and English, in two volumes, by Pugh, published in 1832, which is one of the best.
He takes into his hospitable vocabulary words which no English dictionary recognizes as belonging to the language,--words which will be looked for in vain outside of his own pages.
In the first place I had to look in a biographical dictionary to find out whether his baptismal name was Franklin, or Francis, or simply Frank, for I think children are sometimes christened with this abbreviated name.
What would Amanda think of a suitor who courted her with a rhyming dictionary in his pocket to help him make love?
And don't forget to get that dictionary to-morrow mornin'.
Her and Zach Bloomer was havin' a lot of talk about how to spell somethin' and Lulie she got our dictionary so's to settle it--and Zach.
But what do you want thedictionary for, Miss Martha?
Have you thought to get that dictionaryfrom Lulie yet?
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance.
Grose has both forms in his Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1785.
Two or three of these may be rarely used, but every one would be found in a dictionary of the living language.
They are a kind of shorthand of the science, or algebraic notation; and will not find place in a dictionary of the language, constructed upon true principles, but rather in a technical dictionary apart by themselves.
Take a Pronouncing Dictionary of fifty or a hundred years ago; turn to almost any page, and you will observe schemes of pronunciation there recommended, which are now merely vulgarisms, or which have been dropped altogether.
If dictionary words be counted as apart from the spoken language, the proportion of the component elements of English is very different.
A fairly complete collection of these and similar semi-naturalized foreign words will be found in The Stanford Dictionary of Anglicized Words, edited by Dr.
Booth in his “Analytical Dictionary of the English Language”, 1835; but a full collection of nearly six hundred was published by Mr. H.
Paring down a dictionary was a game of trade-offs.
Still, even encrypting a large dictionary 25 times using different salts took up too much hard-drive space for a basic home computer.
The dictionarywas part of the password cracking program.
He would therefore only have to encrypt a dictionary 25 different times.
Salts were intended to make password cracking far more difficult, so a hacker couldn't just encrypt a dictionary once and then compare it to every list of encrypted passwords he came across in his hacking intrusions.
Electron pulled up his list of dictionary words and looked at it.
Among his other works are a "Dictionary of French Antiquities," a glossary of Old French, and an edition of "Aucassin et Nicolete.
For a bibliography of the Rowley controversy, consult the article on Chatterton in the "Dictionary of National Biography.
Even then he will hardly find himself prepared to give a dictionary definition or romanticism.
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