Noah Webster had a vision for his dictionary, which would be published in 1828. “It is not only important, but, in a degree ...

Kansas City and St. Paul, 1914. Though an American edition of Giles Jacob’s law dictionary was published in 1811, and Noah Webster’s general dictionary became available in 1828, we were without an ...

A word that has been used incessantly to describe the fraught state of American ... challenge,” Merriam-Webster wrote in announcing the selection. “The online dictionary tells us which words ...