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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

February 10, 2012

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It is not only important, but, in a degree necessary, that the people of this country, should have an American Dictionary of the English language; for, although the body of the language is the same as in England, and it is desirable to perpetuate that sameness, yet some differences must exist. Language is the expression of ideas; and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas, they cannot retain an identity of language.

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(32) Words.

Words

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(673) Words.

abandon
abscond
absconder
absconding
admiration
advance
adventure
afore
agitate
agitation
aim
alee
alienation
allegory
aloof
ambulatory
ambuscade
ammocete
amphitheater
amplification
amplify
anamorphosis
ancillary
anemoscope
animal-flower
anoplotherium
anthroposcopy
anticipate
anticipation
apparent
appear
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apprentice
aside
ask
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aspection
assail
assault
assaulted
astroscope
attack
attain
audience
autopsy
autoptically
availableness
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bare
baroscope
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behind
best
bestowment
betray
bewrayed
bezoar
binocle
binocular
bishop
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blind
blockade
bludgeon
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bold
borrow
bosom
bottom
bourgeois
brevier
bribe
brief
bring
broad-eyed
burst
by-respect
cabal
cadet
calculator
call
calling
calumniation
calx
candid
capacious
capital
carbonic
care
carry
cast
catechise
cautious
cheat
check
chiastolite
chroastaces
cipher
circumlocution
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clear
clearness
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cognition
collectedly
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come
comet
command
comment
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comparative
compare
comparison
composition
comprehensive
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computation
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concession
concord
confess
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conscription
consider
consideration
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considering
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contemplation
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contrasting
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counterfeit
counterfeited
counterview
cranioscopy
critic
cry
curiosity
cursoriness
cursory
cuttle
cuttle-fish
deceitfully
defamation
degrade
deism
deliberate
delusion
describing
description
desert
design
determine
detraction
devoutly
dimness
dioptric
dioptrical
disadvantageous
disappear
discipline
disclose
disclosed
disclosing
disclosure
discover
discoverable
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discussion
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distinctly
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drawn
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eagle
eduction
emerge
emergency
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emulate
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engross
enlighten
enlightened
enlightener
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envied
envier
envious
envy
epitropy
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etymology
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examination
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execution
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exhibiting
exhibition
exile
expatriation
experience
explanation
explore
explored
exploring
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exposed
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exposure
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eye
eye-witness
eyed
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favorable
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fleece
for
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forestaller
forth
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fortune-hunter
frankchase
free
frontispiece
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fulsome
fund
game
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gazement
georama
glance
glass-gazing
glimmering
glimpse
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go
gold
grand
grandeur
guilt
hang
harmony
haruspice
hateful
hearing
helioscope
hepatoscopy
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hide
hiding
high-aspiring
hold
honest
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horoscope
hosting
hourly
hunter
hydroscope
hygroscope
ichnography
identify
illeviable
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insight
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inspected
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intelligence
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intention
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intercessor
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introspection
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invading
invention
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irreplevisable
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ken
kenning
kyanite
land
landscape
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lascivient
lateral
lay
leer
leet
level
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levity
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liberalizing
liberally
light
limited
listen
little
live
long
look
lose
love
lucid
lustrate
make
manage
manageable
management
matter
mean
meaning
meanly
mediate
mediation
medicinally
meeting
meteoroscopy
metoposcopy
miche
micrometer
microscope
migrate
mineral
mirador
moneyage
monopolize
moral
mortality
mortally
most
much
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mushroom
muster
naked
nakedness
narrow
narrowness
notwithstanding
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obscene
obscure
observant
observation
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occultness
ocularly
offer
ogle
ogling
open
operate
operation
ophthalmoscopy
opportune
oppose
orniscopist
orthoceratite
orvietan
out
outrage
over
overlook
overt
overtly
oxygen
oxymoron
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paint
pander
panorama
pantography
parallax
patronage
pavier
penitent
perdue
perlustration
peroration
perplex
personal
perspective
perusal
philosophy
physical
platinum
pleasant
pleasure
pledge
point
polemoscope
polyscope
ponder
pongo
pontificate
porism
pose
possess
power
pre-eminence
preponderate
presence
present
presented
presentment
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pretension
privy
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produced
producent
producible
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profile
profiled
profiling
property
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prosopolepsy
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public
publicly
publicness
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purple
purpose
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purview
pyroscope
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quicksilver
quincunx
raise
raised
raiser
ramble
readvertency
realizing
recense
recension
recognize
recollect
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reference
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reflective
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rejudge
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repleviable
replevin
replevisable
resource
respect
respectively
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retection
retrospect
retrospective
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revie
review
reviewed
reviewer
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revisal
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revised
revising
revision
ride
rise
roodloft
scene
scenery
scope
scribe
scutage
secrecy
selfish
seps
sergeant
serve
served
servient
shame
shortly
show
side
sight
sightly
signify
simplicity
solicit
specious
specktacle
specuation
specular
speculate
speculative
speculatory
spy
spy-glass
stage
stale
staple
start
started
sterling
stethescope
string
strive
studded
subject
subministrant
subserviency
subservient
subserviently
surcharge
surprise
survey
surveyed
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surveyor
surview
suspect
swell
synopsis
synoptical
synoptically
tablature
table
tantalize
tantalizing
telescope
telescopical
templar
temptation
tenor
tentacle
theatre
theory
third
thought
thrive
thunder-struck
tole
too
traitor
transient
traverse
tribe
twilight
twinkle
unaspective
uncollectible
uncover
uncovered
uncovering
underplot
unenvied
unexposed
unfixed
unfold
unmasked
unobvious
unrevised
unvail
vagrant
vail
veil
verderor
vie
vielleur
view
viewed
viewer
viewing
viewless
visit
vista
wan
wander
waylay
waylayer
weakness
weigh
whence
willingly
yon
yonder

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V › vie

1828 Definition

VIE, v.i. [See Victor.]

To strive for superiority; to contend; to use effort in a race, contest, competition, rivalship or strife. How delightful it is to see children vie with each other in diligence and in duties of obedience.

In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in a way of life to vie with the best of their family.

VIE, v.t.

1. To show or practice in competition; as, to vie power; to vie charities. [Not legitimate.]

2. To urge; to press.

She hung about my neck, and kiss and kiss she vied so fast. [Not in use.]

1913 Definition

Vie (vie)
v. i.	(?)
Vie
[imp. ** p. p.* Vied (?)] p. pr. ** vb. n.* Vying (?).] [OE. vien, shortened fr. envien, OF. envier to invite, to challenge, a word used in gambling, L. invitare to

To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.

[Obs.]

To strive for superiority; to contend; to use emulous effort, as in a race, contest, or competition.

In a trading nation, the younger sons may be placed in such a way of life as . . . to vie with the best of their family. Addison.

While Waterloo with Cannæ's carnage vies. Byron.

To stake; to wager.

[Obs.] B. Jonson.

To do or produce in emulation, competition, or rivalry; to put in competition; to bandy.

[Obs.]

She hung about my neck; and kiss on kiss
She vied so fast. Shak.

Nor was he set over us to vie wisdom with his Parliament, but to be guided by them. Milton.

And vying malice with my gentleness,
Pick quarrels with their only happiness. Herbert.

A contest for superiority; competition; rivalry; strife; also, a challenge; a wager.

[Obs.]

We 'll all to church together instantly,
And then a vie for boys. J. Fletcher.

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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.

Vision::Reprint

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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.

Vision::Recapture

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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.

February 10, 2012