AN AMERICAN DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CONTAINING THE WHOLE VOCABULARY OF THE FIRST EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES QUARTO, AND THE ENTIRE CORRECTIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF THE SECOND EDITION IN TWO VOLUMES ROYAL OCTAVO BY NOAH WEBSTER, LL. D., Member of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Massachusetts; Member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society in Members of the Connecticut Historical Society; Cor- responding Societies in New York and Georgia; of of Northern the Academy Member Antiquaries of of the Medicine Historical Copenhagen; Philadelphia, Massachusetts, in and of the Columbian Institute in Washington, and Honorary Member of the Michigan Historical Society. GENERAL SUBJECTS OF THIS WORK. 1-ETYMOLOGIES OF ENGLISH WORDS, DEDUCED FROM AN EXAMINATION AND COMPARISON OF WORDS OF CORRE- SPONDING ELEMENTS IN TWENTY LANGUAGES OF ASIA AND EURORE. II.-THE TRUE ORTHOGRAPHY OF WORDS, AS CORRECTED BY THEIR ETYMOLOGIES. III.-PRONUNCIATION EXHIBITED AND MADE OBVIOUS BY THE DIVISION OF WORDS INTO SYLLABLES, BY ACCENTUA- TION. BY MARKING THE SOUNDS OF THE ACCENTED VOWELS, WHEN NECESSARY. OR BY GENERAL RULES. IV.-ACCURATE AND DISCRIMINATING DEFINITIONS. ILLUSTRATED. WHEN DOUBTFUL OR OBSCURE, BY EXAMPLES OF THEIR USE. SELECTED FROM RESPECTABLE AUTHORS, OR BY FAMILIAR PHRASES OF UNDISPUTED AUTHORITY. REVISED AND ENLARGED BY CHAUNCEY A. GOODRICH, LATE PROFFESSOR IN VALE COLLEGE, WITH AN APPENDIX OF USEFUL TABLES, DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS, ETC., ETC. BOSTON, MASS.