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use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary. Johnson.

A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.

Consisting not in words, but in realities. [Obs.] Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.

er words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.

g of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary. -- Bi*lin"gual*ly, adv.

to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary. Men fergot, or feared, to consult . . . ; they were content to consult liberaries. Whewell.

an etymological dictionary or manual.

A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.

ollection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry. He set to work . . . without gradus or other help. T. Hughes.

performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking. A dictionary containing a natural history requires too many hands, as well as too much time, ever to be hoped for. Locke. I was always reckoned a lively hand at a simile. Hazlitt.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

The author or compiler of a lexicon or dictionary. Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach; and even this negative recompense has been yet granted to very few. Johnson.

The art, process, or occupation of making a lexicon or dictionary; the principles which are applied in making dictionaries.

e words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.

ease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

words; of the nature of, or containing, new words or new doctrines. A genteel neological dictionary. Chesterfield.

A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary. [R.]

A collection of names and terms; a dictionary; specif., a collection of Greek names, with explanatory notes, made by Julius Pollux about A.D.180.

pictures; forming pictures; representing with the clearness of a picture; as, a pictorial dictionary; a pictorial imagination. "Pictorial rhetoric." Ruskin. -- Pic*to"ri*al*ly, adv.