Figures
5.1Separate entries for each word derived from Bürg, Bürger (Kramer 1676).
6.1A Screenshot of the Word sketch of contagious in the British National Corpus.
7.1A miniature Johnson’s Dictionary (1817), marketed as “Johnson’s School Dictionary.” Private collection. Reproduced by permission of the owner.
7.2Title page of Webster’s School Dictionary of 1807, with ink signatures of former young owners. Author’s collection.
7.3Cover jacket of The Picture Dictionary for Children (1958).
9.2Doctor in Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition (2007).
9.3Fungo in the Dictionary of American Slang, Third Edition (1995).
9.6Barrel cactus in The American Heritage Dictionary, Fifth Edition (2011).
10.1“Hic papilio / butterfflye.” Drawing. Latin-English vocabulary, Beinecke MS 594; England, s. XV; f. 7v. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
10.2“Porrum / a leke.” Drawing. Latin–English vocabulary, Beinecke MS 594; England, s. XV; f. 13r. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
10.10“Sistrum Ægyptiatum.” Copperplate engraving. Pignoria (1674, facing 161).
10.12“Fig. 1. Abacus. Fig. 2. Abacus or Counting Board.” Detail of copperplate engraving. (Smellie 1768–1771, 1: plate I).
10.13“Decorated.” Wood engraving by Orlando Jewitt in Ogilvie (1850): 1.513.
10.14“Color-Types of the Races of Men.” Chromolithograph. Detail: “Pale White | American.” The Century Dictionary (1903, 1: plate XII).
10.18“Nightingale.” Top four images (all of them photographs) displayed in response to a Google Images search on the word, February 27, 2021. a. Carlos Delgado (CC By-SA 4.0); b. © Tânia Araújo, by permission; c. iStockphoto LP/VictorTyakht; d. Shutterstock.com/John Navajo.
11.1Page plan of a pocket dictionary printed with different covers for different markets.
11.2Book map section showing the first two signatures of a pocket dictionary. Cambridge Dictionaries project archive, 2010.
11.3Entry moderate in Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, 2001 update. Head and foot of entry highlighted.
11.4Entry moderate in The American Heritage College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 2007 update. Head and foot of entry highlighted.
11.5Entries for moderate in Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition, 2004 update. Head and foot of entries highlighted.
13.1The Holloway Reading Stand as illustrated in a Holloway Company catalog circa 1892.
13.2G. & C. Merriam Company advertisement, 1918. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
13.3Elsie Von Craft after John James Audubon 2023. Reproduced by permission of the artist.
14.1Heatmap showing locations of entries in the New World of English Words possibly cribbed from Glossographia.
14.2Scatterplot showing frequencies (per million words) of feller and worrit in American English 1800–1909, using data from Google Books.
14.3Rate per decade at which terminated US federal court cases include Webster’s and dictionary in decisions.
17.1The entry apple in A Melting Pot of Signs: A Dictionary of Trinidad and Tobago Sign Language. (Ed. Trinidad and Tobago Ministry of the People and Social Development. 2010. Port-of-Spain: Author.) By permission.
27.4Planned editorial output for half a year of the project.
28.2AHD5 DTD for the definition segment of an entry, showing all possible subfields.
28.3Initial screen showing OED entry pick, verb 1, first in a series of homograph entries, used with permission. Column to the right lists links to components within entry. “pick, v. 1.”
28.5The entry straggle as it appears in the online version of AHD5. “Straggle” from The American Heritage Dictionary, fifth edition.
28.6Sample screen KWIC concordance in COCA; the verb saunter highlighted in immediate contexts.
