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A comprehensive, worldwide dictionary of the English language features two thumb-indexed volumes that encompass some 500,000 definitions reflecting the historical evolution of words and phrases, illustrative quotations, variant spellings, and many other features. (view table of contents)

An abridgement of The Oxford English Dictionary that provides information on current literary, scientific, and colloquial terms as well as obsolete words