Webster Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary PDF
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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/websterillustratOOOOunse Webster Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary Encyclopedic Edition Webster Illustrated Contemporary Dictionary Encyclopedic Edition Sidney I. Landau Editor in Chief J.G. FERGUSON PUBLISHING COMPANY Chicago, Illinois Copyright © 1992, 1988, 1987, 1984, 1982 by J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company WEBSTER ILLUSTRATED CONTEMPORARY DICTIONARY—ENCYCLOPEDIC EDITION is a revised version of THE ILLUSTRATED CONTEMPORARY DICTIONARY-ENCYCLOPEDIC EDITION Copyright © 1978 by J, G. Ferguson Publishing Company which includes THE DOUBLEDAY DICTIONARY Copyright © 1975 by Doubleday & Company, Inc. ALL SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL Copyright © 1992, 1987, J. G. Ferguson Publishing Company ISBN 0-89434-139-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 78-60207 All rights reserved Copyright under the Universal Copyright Convention; the International Copyright Union; Pan-American Conventions of Montevideo, Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Havana Printed in the United States of America 0-10 Contents t Preface vii Pronunciation Key ix Formation of Plurals and Participles ix Terms Used in the Guide to the Use of This Dictionary x Guide to the Use of This Dictionary xi Usage by Albert H. Marckwardt xiv Punctuation by Harold B. Allen xix Canadian English by H. Rex Wilson xxv Abbreviations and Symbols Used in This Dictionary xxviii A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE 1 Business Letter Writing 1013 Abbreviations 865 Gazetteer 884 Wills and Estate Planning 1046 Grammar andUsage 911 Perpetual Calendar 1052 The Library Research Paper 925 Word Processing Glossary 1055 Metrics Glossary 1061 Greek and Latin Elements in English 938 Units of Measurement —Conversion F actors 1063 Foreign Words and Phrases 953 Tables of Weights and Given Names 969 Measures 1068 Business Law 981 Biographies 1071 Business Math 990 Dictionary Advisory Committee Albert H. Marckwardt Chairman Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics Princeton University Harold B. Allen Professor Emeritus of English and Linguistics University of Minnesota S. I. Hayakawa President Emeritus San Francisco State University Rudolph C. Troike Director Center for Applied Linguistics H. Rex Wilson Associate Professor of English (Linguistics) University of Western Ontario Editorial Staff EDITOR IN CHIEF Sidney I. Landau MANAGING EDITOR Ronald J. Bogus EDITORS Sheila C. Brantley, Samuel Davis, Barbara Nolan, Kathleen D. Shafer CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Myrna Breskin, Olga Coren, Helene MacLean, Harold A. Rodgers, Karin Whiteley CLERICAL ASSISTANTS Lurlene Scott, Lynn Tricarico, Martha Adams ART DIRECTOR Marian Hurd Manfredi CARTOGRAPHER Rafael Palacios ARTISTS Robert Byrd, Kiyoshi Kanai, Mary Suzuki, Jean Taylor Special acknowledgment is gratefully made of the contribu¬ tions of Diana Klemin, Associate Art Director of Doubleday & Company, Inc., in acquiring new illustrations for this work.
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