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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

May 27, 2012

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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

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(20) Words.

assuefaction
assuetude
desuetude
ensue
entertissued
issue
issued
issueless
mansuete
mansuetude
pursue
pursued
pursuer
sue
sued
suet
suety
tissue
tissued
unpursued

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(20) Words.

assuefaction
assuetude
desuetude
ensue
entertissued
issue
issued
issueless
mansuete
mansuetude
pursue
pursued
pursuer
sue
sued
suet
suety
tissue
tissued
unpursued

(346) Words.

acquire
adventure
afford
after
alias
anxious
appeal
apprehension
appropriation
ardor
arista
assuefaction
assuetude
attachment
avail
availment
avails
babyroussa
back
bank-note
battel
bleed
bovine
break
bring
bud
bunsing
burst
cackerel
calamar
canker-worm
capias
caption
carry
cause
certificate
chancery
chase
chaser
chieve
child
clip
combination
come
commissary
commit
conatus
concubinage
confession
conformably
conjecture
continuance
controller
course
coursed
courser
courtesy
credit
creditable
critical
cross
currency
cursitor
cuttle
cuttle-fish
damp
debitor
deboise
deboish
debonnair
debouch
demand
demurrer
depreciate
descendant
descent
desuetude
dilemma
discomfit
dispose
disuse
dog
dogged
doubtful
doubtfulness
draw
dreul
dryfoot
dubious
eager
eagerness
edict
effluence
elisor
emanate
emanation
emane
emerge
emission
emit
end
endeavor
enjoin
ensue
entertissued
eolipile
escape
evade
event
eventually
eventuate
exchequer
execute
execution
exequatur
exigent
fall
filly
final
flow
flux
fly
foal
follow
followed
fontanel
fool
footstep
force
forejudge
forth-issuing
fortunately
fowler
foxhunter
free
from
fulminate
game
gap
gavelkind
gazehound
give
glimpse
go
grace
grow
gush
harden
have
headquarters
heel
herborize
hexaped
hobby
homiletical
hotly
humanly
hunt
hunted
hunter
imitate
implead
impleaded
inauspicious
increase
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indecisiveness
induct
insinuate
interest
intriguer
invariably
irrational
issuable
issue
issued
issueless
it
joyless
judge
keep
leakage
length
line
loan
luckily
luckiness
malignancy
mansuete
mansuetude
marshal
mesne
militia
mise
mole
money
most
mouth
mulier
name
naphtha
object
obsolescent
obsoleteness
obviously
ooze
order
out
overtake
papaw
paper-money
pec-cary
peep
periodical
perjury
persecute
persecutor
persevere
pertinacity
placard
plea
pleadings
policy
pond
pop
popular
port
postea
pour
preach
primogeniture
prince
procede
proceeds
process
propagate
prosecute
prosecuted
prosecutor
protract
pulverize
purchase
pursuable
pursuance
pursuant
pursue
questrist
radiate
rancor
rationally
raven
reach
redress
regard
regular
relay
remainder
request
revenue
revert
right
routine
rowel
run
running-fight
sake
sally
sequestration
sessile
sew
shade
sipe
sire
slaver
son
source
spawn
speed
sportsman
spout
spring
spurious
spuriousness
spurt
staff
stake
stanch
steadily
steatoma
steddily
steer
stiff
stream
suability
suable
success
succession
sue
suety
suing
suit
suitor
suppliant
surge
sway
sweat
take
tallow
tender
texture
thrust
tissue
tissued
token
track
trade
tragedy
tragically
trail
traverse
treatment
trouble
try
unpursued
unsuccessfully
unsuccessfulness
upshot
venialness
venture
verdict
victor
view
wager
waif
walk
warrant
water
wave
way
weeping-rock
well
will
word
wrath
writ
zealot

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1828 Definition

SUE, v.t. su. [L. sequor. See Seek and Essay.]

1. To seek justice or right from one by legal process; to institute process in law against one; to prosecute in a civil action for the recovery of a real or supposed right; as, to sue one for debt; to sue one for damages in trespass. Matt.5.

2. To gain by legal process.

3. To clean the beak, as a hawk; a term of falconry.

To sue out, to petition for and take out; or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

SUE, v.i. To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek for in law; as, to sue for damages.

1. To seek by request; to apply for; to petition; to entreat.

By adverse destiny constrain'd to sue

For counsel and redress, he sues to you.

2. To make interest for; to demand.

Caesar come to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship.

1913 Definition

Sue (sue)
v. t.	(?)
Sue
[imp. & p. p. Sued (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Suing (?).] [OE. suen, sewen, siwen, OF. sivre (pres.ind. 3d sing. il siut, suit, he follows, nous sevons

To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

For yet there was no man that haddle him sued. Chaucer.

I was beloved of many a gentle knight,
And sued and sought with all the service due. Spenser.

Sue me, and woo me, and flatter me. Tennyson.

To seek justice or right from, by legal process; to institute process in law against; to bring an action against; to prosecute judicially.

(b)

To clean, as the beak; -- said of a hawk.

To leave high and dry on shore; as, to sue a ship.

R. H. Dana, Jr.

To sue out (Law), to petition for and take out, or to apply for and obtain; as, to sue out a writ in chancery; to sue out a pardon for a criminal.

To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.

By adverse destiny constrained to sue
For counsel and redress, he sues to you. Pope.

Cæsar came to Rome to sue for the double honor of a triumph and the consulship. C. Middleton.

The Indians were defeated and sued for peace. Jefferson.

To prosecute; to make legal claim; to seek (for something) in law; as, to sue for damages.

To woo; to pay addresses as a lover.

Massinger.

To be left high and dry on the shore, as a ship.

R. H. Dana, Jr.

Noah Says...

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

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The foundation for American Heritage Access [AHA] strives to capture the essence of American culture with an intent to make early American manuscripts accessible to modern society. We believe that the successful future of this country is dependent on honoring and respecting its past. In order to achieve this ideal, several projects will be introduced and executed. The first initiatives of Project::Noah will involve the accessibility of the 1828 American dictionary.

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The first vision, Vision::Reprint, has an intent to make a modern printing of the first dictionary of the American language available to the public for under $25. The first task, Task::Access, involves the digitizing of the original 1828 dictionary. The dictionary is available in microfilm (American Culture Series, Reel 335.6-336.1, Michigan University Microfilms) at many universities. To digitize the microfilm as a batch process requires a special scanner.

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The second vision, Vision::Redesign, has an intent to improve the current online accessibility to the 1828 dictionary. Beyond the Task::XML, other tasks related to this Vision::Redesign include identifying features and functionality for this new website. In addition, plugins will be discussed and created to make the dictionary accessible in other ways: iPhone, Google widget, Firefox Add-on, etc.

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The third vision, Vision::Recapture, has an intent to evoke the importance of Noah Webster in our American Heritage. This vision will manifest itself in a commissioned painting of Noah Webster. The process involved will require the input from concerned Americans. The final commission painting will be derived from initial sketches and digital compositions. Feedback from the community is essential for this vision's success throughout the entire process.

May 27, 2012