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Delighted to receive a dictionary of slang as a gift, he explored its application to his own interests.
“That’s what it means. I looked up the word ‘hydrophobia’ in the dictionary and it said very plainly that anything going mad refuses to drink water.
From Literature
In the dictionary of the boy’s imagination, this house would be listed under the entry of real home.
From Literature
Tattered spy novels, texts on information theory and binary multipliers, and an old Polish-English dictionary.
From Literature
He returns drenched in sweat and hands me a pocket-size Spanish-English dictionary.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
