"A selected, pronouncing and accented dictionary Comprising a selection of the choicest words found in the best English authors. : Being an abridgement of the most useful dictionaries now extant; together with the addition, of a number of words now in vogue not found in any dictionary. : In which the definitions are concisely given, the words so divided as to lead to the preseut [i.e., present] mode of pronunciation, and by a typographical character, the sound of the vowels and accented syllables are distinctly pointed out; and the parts of speech noted & explained. : The whole made easy and familiar to children or youth, and designed for the use of schools in America.