PREFACE. EB 20 1941 SINCE the publication in 1835 of Dr. Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language" (known as School Dictionary"), great changes have occurred laries of words in common use, many that were less current having now become comparatively very many that were then unknown having becom ingrafted upon our language. And although sinc considerable improvements have from time to time the "Elementary Dictionary,"-notably its revision ment in 1860,-yet so marked have been the cha our rapidly expanding language, that to meet the p things it has been determined to supersede that w essentially new as to embrace such of the princip now in common use as will be likely to be referr with such modifications in the definitions of cer new as the most modern usage requires. The present volume is offered to the public as conditions, with the assurance that in its construct have been taken in the preparation of the vocabu addition to which will be found embodied in the v of Words and Phrases from Foreign Languages (1 Latin, Spanish, etc.), with translations into Engli hibiting the pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and graphical, Biographical, and Mythological Names; the pronunciation of the Names of Distinguished M Times; a table of the Pronunciation of Modern Names; a table of Abbreviations used in Writing and tables of Weights, Measures, and Moneys, includ System, and the Official Valuation of Foreign Coin It is believed by the publishers that the volume LARY OF GREEK, LATIN, AND LATINIZED GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 315 TION OF THE NAMES OF DISTINGUISHED MEN OF MODERN TIMES 329 TION OF MODERN GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 337 . NAMES OF MEN AND WOMEN, WITH THEIR SIGNIFICATION, AND ICATION OF THE LANGUAGES FROM WHICH THEY ARE DERIVED. 362 |