...levd.] A lecher; one given to criminal pleasures. Shakttptare. LEXICOGRAPHER, i. [Xifwoy and wfr*] A writer of dictionaries ; a harmless drudge that...busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing 'he signification, of words. Watts, LEXICOGRAPHY,?. p^«oy and ypa$«.] The art or practice of writing...

...dictionaries, and temporary poems; whence, any mean production is called grub-street. '• LBXICOQRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge, that...original, and detailing the signification of words." His fondness for social meetings and dulis at taverns is well known. We learn from Boswell lhat he...

...histories, dictionaries, and temporary poema; whence, any mean production ia called grub-street. " LEXICOGRAPHER. A writer of dictionaries; a harmless...original, and detailing the signification of words." His fondness for social meetings and clubs at taverns is well known. We learn from Boswell that he...

...lexicographer, " that harmless drudge," ns Johnson, himself one of the craft, has de•ignatcd him, " that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words,'* is of necessity an historian — and Elymoloi/g becomes History. If we inquire inlo the character of...

...dictionary; and ypaijiw (grapho), I write. A writer of dictionaries; " a harmless drudge," says Johnson, " that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the signification of words." Mac'-ro-dac"-ty-li, s. — fiaKpoe (makros), long; and SaKrv\oe (daktulos), a finger. A class of birds...

...could not devote much labor to that work. Indeed, he seems to despise the occupation, for he defines a lexicographer : ' A writer of dictionaries ; a harmless...original, and detailing the signification of words : ' saying in effect that the employment was beneath the attention of the ' leviathan of literature,'...

...more than that which honest Sam Johnson has defined him to be in his well-known definition of the word lexicographer — " a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in traeing the original, and dctailing the signification of words." The self-saerifieing spirit of some...

...bolide); and, lastly, Jupiter tenant is. der Donnergott. The lexicographer, according to Dr. Johnson, is " a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the...original and detailing the signification of words." But he can scarcely be called harmless anless he does his work accurately. He is not expected to command...

...out two cases in which he alludes with ridiculing pleasantry to his own occupation. " Grub Street, the name of a street much inhabited by writers of...will think he has sometimes treated her with less respect than he ought, and, to good minds, such reflections, although perhaps without much foundation,...

...authority, as a reformer of the language, has been owing. Dr. Johnson defines a lexicographer to be " a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original and detailing the significations of words," — and had Webster confined himself to this, his legitimate province, he...