Based on Webster's third new international dictionary

compiled by F.G. Fowler and H.W. Fowler

compiled by F.G. Fowler and H.W. Fowler

text edited by J. Coulson ... [et al.] ; illustrations edited by Helen Mary Petter

Clarence L. Barnhart [editor] ; Jess Stein, managing editor ; assisted and advised by 355 authorities and specialists

edited by George Davidson, Anne Seaton

prepared by William Little, H.W. Fowler, J. Coulson ; revised and edited by C.T. Onions

general editor, David B. Guralnik

by Noah Webster unabridge

text edited by J. Coulson ... [et al.] ; illustrations edited by Helen Mary Petter

Laurence Urdang, editor in chief ; Stuart Berg Flexner, managing editor

Jess Stein, editor in chief ; Laurence Urdang, managing editor

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Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief ; Leonore Crary Hauck, managing editor

A.S. Hornby

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edited by William Geddie

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Coulson, J. ; Petter, Helen Mary ; Eagle, Dorothy ; Hawkins, Joyce