Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

According to the Dictionary of American Hymnology, " Amazing Grace " is John Newton's spiritual autobiography in verse.

The Dictionary of American Hymnology claims it is included in more than a thousand published hymnals, and recommends its use for " occasions of worship when we need to confess with joy that we are saved by God's grace alone ; as a hymn of response to forgiveness of sin or as an assurance of pardon ; as a confession of faith or after the sermon.

According to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Asgard is derived from Old Norse āss, god + garðr, enclosure ; from Indo-European roots ansu-spirit, demon ( see cognate ahura ) + gher-grasp, enclose ( see cognates garden and yard ).< ref >; See also ansu-and gher -< sup > 1 </ sup > in " Appendix I: Indo-European Roots " in the same work .</ ref >

The Dictionary of Politics: Selected American and Foreign Political and Legal Terms defines the term Alford plea as: " A plea under which a defendant may choose to plead guilty, not because of an admission to the crime, but because the prosecutor has sufficient evidence to place a charge and to obtain conviction in court.

* The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd edition, Houghton Mifflin ( 1992 ), hardcover, 2140 pages, ISBN 0-395-44895-6

" Benjamin Franklin ," Dictionary of American Biography ( 1931 ) – vol 3, with hot links online

William Safire considered this the coinage, but the Random House Dictionary of American Slang considers the usage " metaphorical or perhaps proverbial, rather than a concrete example of the later slang term ", and Popik likewise does not consider this the coinage.

* Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships

The term baccalaureus is a pun combining the prosaic baccalarius with bacca lauri ' " laurel berry "— according to the American Heritage Dictionary, " bacca " is the Old Irish word for " farmer " + laureus, " laurel berry ," the idea being that a " baccalaureate " had farmed ( cultivated ) his mind.

* American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Houghton Mifflin Company ( 2006 ).

The Oxford English Dictionary records the first use of the phrase " conspiracy theory " to a 1909 article in The American Historical Review .< ref >" conspiracy ", Oxford English Dictionary, Second edition, 1989 ; online version March 2012.

* American Heritage Dictionary, " Conspiracy theory "

The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines design as: " To conceive or fashion in the mind ; invent ," and " To formulate a plan ", and defines engineering as: " The application of scientific and mathematical principles to practical ends such as the design, manufacture, and operation of efficient and economical structures, machines, processes, and systems .".

However, he took a more conspicuous and personal part in the preparation ( with Baptist scholar Horatio B. Hackett ) of the enlarged American edition of Dr. ( afterwards Sir ) William Smith's Dictionary of the Bible ( 1867-1870 ), to which he contributed more than 400 articles, as well as greatly improving the bibliographical completeness of the work.

This also has to do with the different models preferred by British and American players .< ref name =" Harvard Dictionary of Music ">

The Indo-European root of the " pour " derivation would be * gheu-d-as it is listed in the American Heritage Dictionary ( AHD ).

Both pronunciations are given as correct by the Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary.

The Barnhart Concise Dictionary of Etymology: the Origins of American English Words.

According to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Indo-European root is * ser meaning " to protect ".

The American Heritage Dictionary claims that a hogshead can consist of anything from ( presumably ).

* — Extensive database of hymns and hymnology resources ; incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

By 1918 we can find a shot of the sky being used to reflect the mood of one of the characters without specific explanation in The Gun Woman ( Frank Borzage ), but it must be emphasized that these examples are very rare, and did not either then, or within the next several years, constitute regular practice in the American cinema.

Other groups in the British grindcore scene, such as Heresy and Unseen Terror, have emphasized the influence of American hardcore punk, including Septic Death, as well as Swedish D-beat.

Mormons emphasized patriotism and industry, rising in socioeconomic status from the bottom among American religious denominations to middle-class.

American doctrine subsequently emphasized mounted tactics.

The Iroquois philosophy in particular gave much to Christian thought of the time and in many cases actually inspired some of the institutions adopted in the United States: for example, Benjamin Franklin was a great admirer of some of the methods of the Iroquois Confederacy, and much of early American literature emphasized the political philosophy of the natives.

He emphasized commitment to both the American people, and the South Vietnamese government.

The need for manoeuvre was emphasized by the American Civil War, and was used very effectively by the Prussian General Staff to combine the strategic use of railways with the new firepower of quick-firing ordnance and small arms to defeat France in 1871.

In an older commercial from 1986, Tylenol emphasized that it is the drug that American hospitals trust the most.

In contrast, sadcore emphasized pain and suffering through melodic use of acoustic and electronic instrumentation in the music of bands like American Music Club and Red House Painters, while the revival of Baroque pop reacted against lo-fi and experimental music by placing an emphasis on melody and classical instrumentation, with artists like Arcade Fire, Belle & Sebastian and Rufus Wainwright.

In England in the 1830s, when the word first entered the lexicon, it was also used in other contexts as an emphasized form of total ; a comparable American English locution would be " total with a capital T " ( an instance of the " with a capital letter " snowclone ).

Duncan wrote of American dancing: “ let them come forth with great strides, leaps and bounds, with lifted forehead and far-spread arms, to dance .” Her focus on natural movement emphasized steps, such as skipping, outside of codified ballet technique.

Zawinul and Shorter's continued dominance of the American jazz scene was emphasized when Tale Spinnin won the Down Beat best album award for 1975 ( the third Weather Report album to do so ) and Native Dancer was the runner-up.

Individual totemism is especially emphasized among the Australian Aborigines and the American Indians.

" British intelligence sources thought his motives were patriotic, but American prosecutors emphasized Morison's personal economic gain and complaints about his government job.

Major scholars such as Leslie Fiedler, who discussed Brown in his landmark study Love and Death in the American Novel ( 1960 ), helped repopularize his work, although scholarly emphasis in the mid and late 20th century emphasized Brown's novels, largely ignoring his voluminous periodical writings, pamphlets, and historical narratives.

It emphasized social interaction and group learning over individual education, and became the dominant model in American education.

The New Critical theory, which dominated American literary thought throughout the middle 20th century, emphasized close reading, and criticism based on the texts themselves rather than on non-textual bias or non-textual history.

Some have argued that a strain of American exceptionalism made U. S. workers resistant to parties that emphasized class struggle ; others have attributed the left's failure to its own successes in building strong unions, but at the cost of downplaying its own political and social agendas for the sake of unity or short-term gains.

Some have argued that a strain of American exceptionalism made U. S. workers resistant to parties that emphasized class struggle ; others have attributed the left's failure to its own successes in building strong unions, but at the cost of downplaying its own political and social agendas for the sake of unity or short-term gains.

Fairness is emphasized ; one writer expounding a centrist position wrote " people would neither be left to fend for themselves nor guaranteed equality of outcome-they would be given the tools they needed to achieve the American dream if they worked hard.

Nineteenth and early 20th century American urban planning, emphasized a grid plan, partly out of extensive reliance on foot, horse and streetcars for transportation.

According to American historian Barbara Jelavich, the movement " at first supported no set ideology, but instead emphasized the moral regeneration of the individual ", while expressing a commitment to the Romanian Orthodox Church.