The Atlantic

The Century Dictionary

ONE does not need to be very old — he may be no older in years of discretion than The Atlantic itself — to recall the wordy war which ravaged the country when Webster and Worcester, in quartos which ...
Newsday

Century-old dictionary is a page-turner

Do you own a dictionary anymore? Most of us have shed this extra weight from our lives, knowing that these hefty books can be matched by an app on our cellphones if we need to search for the meaning ...
Star Tribune

Yuen: A century-old dictionary on display at Magers & Quinn can answer questions you didn’t know you had

For years, I schlepped a red hardbound Merriam-Webster’s tome, along with a dogeared Roget’s Thesaurus, to every newsroom cubicle I worked at across the country. In permanent marker I even scrawled ...
The Atlantic

A Standard Dictionary

WE have considered in succession the two recent great lexicographic enterprises undertaken by American scholars, The Century Dictionary and The International Dictionary. Now that A Standard Dictionary ...
insider.si.edu

The Century dictionary and cyclopedia : with a new atlas of the world : a work of general reference in all departments of knowledge

v. 1-10. The Century dictionary, prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney; rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith.--v. 11. The Century cyclopedia of names, ...
Slate

The Definition of a Dictionary

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...
Hyperallergic

Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary

Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang (1970), The Queen's Vernacular: A Gay Lexicon, San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books (1972), and Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler with Ann Russo, A ...
AOL

Yuen: A century-old dictionary on display at Magers & Quinn can answer questions you didn't know you had

Do you own a dictionary anymore? For years, I schlepped a red hardbound Merriam-Webster's tome, along with a dogeared Roget's Thesaurus, to every newsroom cubicle I worked at across the country. In ...
insider.si.edu

The Century dictionary and cyclopedia, with a new atlas of the world; a work of general reference in all departments of knowledge

v. 1-10. The Century dictionary ... prepared under the superintendence of William Dwight Whitney ... rev. & enl. under the superintendence of Benjamin E. Smith. v.1 ...
Nature

The Century Dictionary

THE preparation of an English dictionary on the scale of the present work is a task of enormous difficulty, and Prof. Whitney may be cordially congratulated on the success with which, in association ...
The New York Times

THE NEW CENTURY DICTIONARY.

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