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.

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

A Dictionary of Hymnology, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.

* — Extensive database of hymns and hymnology resources ; incorporates the Dictionary of North American Hymnology, a comprehensive database of North American hymnals published before 1978.

North American hymnals indexed by the online Dictionary of North American Hymnology, comparable to

* Hymnary. org, site of the Dictionary of North American Hymnology.

A Dictionary of Hymnology setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of all Ages and Nations .... New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892.

Luther wrote the words and composed the melody sometime between 1527 and 1529 .< ref name = Julian > Julian, John, ed., < cite > A Dictionary of Hymnology: Setting forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of all Ages and Nations < cite >, Second revised edition, 2 vols., n. p., 1907, reprint, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957, 1: 322 – 25 </ ref > It has been translated into English at least seventy times and also into many other languages .< ref > W.

Dr. Julian, the editor of the Dictionary of Hymnology, says that ' they are, with few exceptions, very weak and poor ,' and others insist that they are ' crudely sentimental.

The Free Online Dictionary of Computing ( FOLDOC ) claims that the term kluge " was used in connection with computers as far back as the mid-1950s and, at that time, was used exclusively of * hardware * kluges ".

Although the dance didn't originate in Poland, the Oxford Etymological Dictionary claims its name is derived from the Czech polka meaning " Polish woman " ( feminine form corresponding to polák, a Pole ).

:“ The Skeptic ’ s Dictionary is aimed at four distinct audiences: the open-minded seeker, who makes no commitment to or disavowal of occult claims ; the soft skeptic, who is more prone to doubt than to believe ; the hardened skeptic, who has strong disbelief about all things occult ; and the believing doubter, who is prone to believe but has some doubts.

The exact significance of the style, which has been used occasionally for other prelates since the middle of the fifth century, is nowhere officially defined but, according to the Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, the title has been criticized in the Roman Catholic Church as incompatible with its own claims by the See of Rome.

The Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition, claims that the term originated in about 1973.

According to the book Skeptics Dictionary, Chopra's " mind-body claims get even murkier as he tries to connect Ayurveda with quantum physics .” Chopra also participated in the Channel 4 ( UK ) documentary The Enemies of Reason, where, when interviewed by scientist Richard Dawkins, he admitted that the term " quantum theory " was being used as a metaphor and that it has little to do with the actual quantum theory in physics.

The Dictionary of World Biography: The Ancient World, claims that she might have lived from 1200 B. C.

The Chambers Dictionary claims that the terms novelette and novelettish have also been used in a derogatory manner, suggesting fiction which is " trite, feeble or sentimental.

A. J. Weberman claims to have invented the word " garbology " to describe his study of Bob Dylan's garbage in 1970, but according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word garbologist was first used by waste collectors in Australia in the 1960s.

Lemprière's Classical Dictionary claims that when Hegetorides saw that his city was besieged by Athenian forces and that there was a law declaring death to anyone who spoke of peace, he went into the agora with a rope tied around his neck.

Dictionary. com Unabridged ( v 1. 1 ) based on the Unabridged Dictionary by Random House claims that the word originated between 1590 – 1600.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word middlebrow first appeared in print in 1925, in Punch: " The BBC claims to have discovered a new type — ' the middlebrow '.