Lexicography: alternatives and connections

To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionar…

Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied t…

Containing, or consisting of, two languages; expressed in two languages; as, a bilingual inscription; a bilingual dictionary.

a word printed at the top of the page of a dictionary or other reference book to indicate the first or last item on that page

To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to cons…

of Dictionary

Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medi…

An etymological dictionary or manual.

A geographical dictionary; a book giving the names and descriptions, etc., of many places.

A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialec…

A dictionary of prosody, designed as an aid in writing Greek or Latin poetry.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

Of or pertaining to a lexicon, to lexicography, or words; according or conforming to a lexicon.

A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the…

A writer of a lexicon.

Liberal principles; the principles and methods of the liberals in politics or religion; specifically, the principles of the Liberal pa…

Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical s…

A vocabulary, dictionary, or glossary.