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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Dictionary \Dic"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl. {Dictionaries}. [Cf. F.
     dictionnaire. See {Diction}.]
     1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged
        alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a
        lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
  
              I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and
              noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
              illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time
              the materials of a dictionary.        --Johnson.
  
     2. Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system
        or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a
        dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical
        dictionary.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dictionary
       n : a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words
           with information about them [syn: {lexicon}]

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  DICTIONARY, n.  A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth
  of a language and making it hard and inelastic.  This dictionary,
  however, is a most useful work.
  
  

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