Modern dictionaries have a longer masthead than the average magazine; my copy of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 25 editors. But the first—and still, by some measures, the ...

Three thousand years of Habesha history and discourse -- Samuel Johnson's discursive possession and The voyage to Abyssinia -- Johnson's reading, beliefs, and translation of The voyage to Abyssinia -- ...

Here is a real treat for word lovers: 3,100 selections from Dr. Johnson's historic dictionary, with definitions, etymologies and usage illustrations. To buss is charmingly defined as""To kiss; to ...

In his "Dictionary of the English Language," Samuel Johnson defined “lexicographer” as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge.” **novel: a) a piece of writing of some length with something wrong ...

SAMUEL JOHNSON — Joseph Wood Krutch—Henry Holt ($3.75). When England’s crusty, sagacious Samuel Johnson died in 1784, he left to posterity the first great English dictionary, a few volumes of ...