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"The Dictionary of Lost Words is a work of fiction. All incidents and dialogue, and all characters with the exception of some well-known historical figures, are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Before the lost word, there was another. It arrived at the Scriptorium in a second-hand envelope, the old address crossed out and Dr Murray, Sunnyside, Oxford, written in its place. It was Da's job to open the post and...

Based on cutting-edge science, dinosaurs are revealed, as never before, in specially commissioned photographs and illustrations that highlight the latest paleontological insights into dinosaur posture and gait, musculature and internal organs, behavior, and the reasons for extinction.

"The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking." "Professor James Murray, an astonishingly...

Dictionary of Law terms.

Alphabetical listing of medical terms with meanings based on actual contemporary usage, including part-of-speech label, pronunciation, and examples of words used in context.

Derived from the Concise Science Dictionary