What's in a Word?
Background
"Noah Webster published his first dictionary of the English language in 1806, and in 1828 published the first edition of his An American Dictionary of the English Language. The work came out in 1828 in two volumes. It contained 12,000 words and from 30,000 to 40,000 definitions that had not appeared in any earlier dictionary. In 1840 the second edition, corrected and enlarged, came out, in two volumes."[Source: noah-webster.html]
- Webster's 1828 Online Dictionary
I was unable to find the 1844 version of Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language online (see Lexicon below). The 1828 was the next most likely version that was available. Definitions in the "Prayer" vocabulary file may be assumed to come from that website unless otherwise indicated.
[Source: ChristianTech.com]
- ARTFL Project: 1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Where I could find no entry in the 1828 dictionary, I used definitions from the 1913.
[Source: webster.form.html]
- Dickinson and Her Dictionary
The Emily Dickinson Lexicon. An unfinished project to associate Dickinson works with dictionary:"The late Richard Benvenuto confirms that Dickinson used an 1844 reprint of Webster's 1841 [American Dictionary of the English Language] as a source of language power (Benvenuto 46)."
[Source: Emily Dickinson Lexicon]