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A NEW AND GREATLY ENLARGED EDITION, IN TWO VOLUMES,
WITH
INTRODUCTORY ESSAYS BY EMINENT AUTHORS, AND NUMEROUS ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS.
WEBSTER'S
IMPROVED DICTIONARY
OP THE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE;
EXHIBITING
THE ORIGIN, ORTHOGEAPHY, PRONUNCIATION, AND DEFINITION OF WORDS, EMBRACING THE
PRINCIPAL TERMS USED IN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, ACCORDING
TO THE BEST AUTHORITIES.
REVISED AKD EMLAEGED
BY PROFESSOR CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH;
WITH INTRODUCTORiT ESSAY ON THE PHILOSOPHr OP LANGUAGE AND UNIVEKSAL GEAMMAE,
BY SIR JOHN STODDART, LL.D.;
AND A SKETCH OP THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OP THE AET OP WRITING,
BY HENRY NOEL HUMPHREYS,
llhsirated with Richly-coloured Examples, Facsimiles, and other Embellishments.
Dr. Webster's Dictionary has long been considered the very best yet published. The Work
has passed through a number of editions, and in each improvements have been made by the addition
of new matter, and the correction of previous errors, until the Work is now emphatically the
Standard Dictionary op the English Language. One important feature of this book is, its
being a Synonymous Dictionary. Under each of the important words, all others having the same
general signification are arranged together, except in cases where they have been previously ex-
hausted in framing the definitions. This arrangement will be found of frequent use even to those
who are practised in composition, while it afibrds important aid to young writers in attaining grace,
variety, and copiousness of diction.
The chief value of a Dictionary consists in its definitions — in its giving a clear, full, and accurate
exhibition of all the various shades of meaning which belong by established usage to the words of a
language. It is in this respect especially that Dr. Webster's Dictionary has been generally con-
sidered superior to every other ; and to this point, therefore, the labours of the present Editor have
been mainly directed. No eflForts have been spared to consult the most recent and valuable works,
not only in lexicography, but in the various departments and the arts embraced in the Dictionary.
As these subjects are in a state of continual progress, every important word in its various applica-
tions has been diligently examined and compared with the statements made on each topic by the
latest and most approved authorities. In addition to this, the Editor has been assisted by various
distinguished Professors, who have revised the definitions belonging to their several departments.
On the subject of Pronunciation much labour has also been bestowed in this Edition. A
careful comparison has been made with the latest authorities, and wherever changes seemed desirable
(hey have been introduced. Many thousand words have been respelt, and no effort has been spared
!o render the work in all respects a Complete Pronouncing Dictionary.
The New Words that have been added amount to several thousands, and the Dictionary now
contains 27,000 words more than " Todd's Edition of Johnson."
This Edition will include, for the first time, an Introductory Essay on the Philosophy of Language
and Universal Grammar, by Sir John Stoddart, LL.D. ; and also a Treatise on the Origin and
Progress of the Art of Writing, by Henry Noel Humphheys ; illustrated by Specimens of the
art of writing in all ages (many richly coloured), and an abundant Series of Facsimiles arranged in
Chronological Order to exhibit the gradual advance of the art ; the whole Revised by the Author
expressly for this Work.
This greatly improved and enlarged Edition of Webster's Dictionarj* is carefully printed upon
superfine irnperial paper, in a clear readable type, in double columns, and will be completed in
Thirty-Six Shilling Parts ; the whole forming two handsome imperial 8vo volumes.
Printed and Published by William Mackenzie, London, Edinburgh, and Glasgow.
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