Show UP TO DATE WORDS IN NEW DICTIONARY Among the many important features of Laird Leos Lees encyclopedic edition of Websters Webster's now new standard dictionary just off tho the press are arc tho the dictionary of geography and the tho dictionary of mythology The handsomely bound new book of 1400 pa pages cs contains an up t to data dato unabridged defining dictionary covering erin tho the entire held field of En English Englis Ush lexicography and twelve additional dictionaries of at an encyclopedic charac tor ter There Thera is a pronouncing dictionary of ot bio biography raphy dictionaries of for foreign i n phrases fictitious characters in literature litera litera- tine ture maxims maxims maxims' and proverbs biblical names Greek Greck and Latin proper names language e of flowers law terms pseudonyms and familiar allusions It ii is printed in largo large o bold type makin making tho the easy without strain to the eyes Only proper names and proper terms erms derived from them ar are aro printed with n R large capital initial which enables one ono oneto oneto onoto to determine at a 0 glance lance when whon a a. word should invariably begin be n with a capital letter Jetter The various styles s of typo used afford an easy m means ns of distinguishing the tho different divisions of words the tho I pronunciation being beina clearly dearly indicated 1 by phonetic respelling in in parentheses Tho The past pat tense and participles of nil all verbs are C given Cen en in small caps placed in in brackets after the pronunciation as are also the dc degrees rc 8 of adjectives and the irre Irregularly formed plurals of nouns Th Then n the tho Definitions follow imme immediate iato- iato ly hr the tho different shades of or meaning meaning- being boing bo- bo ing separated rated b by Arabic fi figures 9 and the various parts parta of speech by Roman I numerals Transitive and intransitive verbs erbs are aro ro s separately defined and the etymology Y i is I given in brackets after tho the definitions all foreign letters bein being transliterated into English A A casual glance glanco through b the work shows that it is strictly up to date in inthe inthe the matter of including re recently coln coined d words and recent definitions of the older on ones B. B For Fo instance We wo find the words word aerodrome hangar serology recall referendum and now new nationalism As an indication of the tho work being abreast of the times we note under the word Manchu the tho definition lc One of a n Mongolian race t that at conquered China in the seventeenth seventeenth seven seven- century and formed the tho dynasty that was overthrown in 1912 1012 b by the Chinese in favor of a republic Synonyms and antonyms are arc given von in the body of the work and a complete col col- lection of and other verbal distinctions in tho the appendix which nIso also contains a collection of f modern ns and contractions |