Search the Dictionary

A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.

A book published yearly; any annual report or summary of the statistics or facts of a year, designed to be used as a reference book; as, the Congregational Yearbook.

In France, an official government publication bound in yellow covers.

th a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols. This letter, in English, is used for several different vowel sounds. See Guide to pronunciation, §§ 43-74. The regular long a…

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

in Hebrew) distinct portions or verses commence with successive letters of the alphabet. Hook.

on. That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible Hooker.

The act of abolishing; abolition; destruction. Hooker.

Around; all round; on every side of. "Look about you." Shak. "Bind them about thy neck." Prov. iii. 3.

Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.

An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation. Ancient coins as abridgments of history. Addison.

r thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.

15. Some things . . . are notwithstanding of so great dignity and acceptation with God. Hooker.

erritory. [In this sense accession is more generally used.] I, from the influence of thy looks, receive Access in every virtue. Milton.

The order that includes rapacious birds. They have a hooked bill, and sharp, strongly curved talons. There are three families, represented by the vultures, the falcons or hawks, and the owls.

harmony; -- followed by with, formerly also by to; as, his disposition accords with his looks. My heart accordeth with my tongue. Shak. Thy actions to thy words accord. Milton.

To hook, or draw to one's self as with a hook. [Obs.]

tter's field, said to have lain south of Jerusalem, purchased with the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.…

ately upon the acknowledgment of the Christian faith, the eunuch was baptized by Philip. Hooker.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.