Excerpt from The Standard Intermediate-School Dictionary of the English Language: Designed to Give the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, and Etymology of About 38, 000 Words and Phrases in the Speech and Literature of the English-Speaking Peoples In this Dictionary the system Of compounding words adopted by the Standard Dictionary has been applied, and the German double hyphen is used to distinguish hyphenated compound words from compounds in which words originally distinct are united without the hyphen, as coachman, sunbeam, wildcat, etc. The Single hyphen is used merely to indicate division Of words into syllables. 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.