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Excerpt from Chambers's English Dictionary: Pronouncing, Explanatory, and Etymological; With Vocabularies of Scottish Words and Phrases, Americanisms, &C The obsolete and rare words in the works of our greatest writers from Spenser to Tennyson, the Authorised Version of the Scriptures, the Apocrypha, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Scotch Metrical Version of the Psalms. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.