Author: Funk and Wagnall.
Title: Funk and Wagnalls Practical Standard Dictionary of the English Language, designed to give the orthography, pronunciation, meaning, and etymology of over 140,000 words and phrases in the speech and literature of the English-speaking peoples, with synonyms, antonyms and prepositions. Containing also an appendix of foreign phrases used in the English speech and literature.
Description: Chicago: J.G. Ferguson and associates, 1945, repr.; XXXIX+1309 pp., bl/w ill., lge 8vo, d.-red lin. hardc., gilt lett.and stamp on front and spine, thumb-index, name prev. owner with ded. on f.e.p. Edges bit thumbed, spine chafed, but surprisingly good, tight copy. ¶ This dictionary has been especially designed to meet the average need of people at home and in their places of business.

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