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A compendious dictionary of the English language, by Noah Webster. New Haven: From Sidney's Press. For Hudson & Goodwin, Book-sellers, Hartford, and Increase Cooke & Co. Book-sellers, 1806, 408 pages
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Webster’s international dictionary of the English language
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Imternet Archive Full text: 1895  --  1898  --  1907

Webster's New international dictionary of the English language
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Internet Archive Full Text (1923)  1927: Vol.1  -  vol.2

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"Century dictionary an encyclopedic lexicon” several editions 1889-1914
“New Century dictionary of the English language” several editions 1927-1948

Oxford English Dictionary (click on full entry in order to see uses of this word in context at different points in time)

Dictionary of Regional American English (DARE)

A dictionary of American English on historical principles,ed. by Sir William A. Craigie and James R. Hulbert. The University of Chicago press, 1938-44, 4 v.
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Contemporary subject encyclopedias and dictionaries are useful in interpreting primary sources. They can be found by an Expanded Search in the HOLLIS Catalog with, e.g., <Medicine dictionaries> [Keyword search], limited by year range.

An illustrated dictionary of medicine, biology and allied sciences ..., by George M. Gould. 3d ed. Philadelphia, Blakiston, 1897, c1894.

Subject: Medicine--Dictionaries.
Natural history--Dictionaries.