title: Random House Webster's Dictionary: Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated
author:  Random House 
description: The Timeless Resource No Word User Can Be Without-Now Completely Revised and Updated in a New Edition! <br />- More than 75,000 entries - More than 150 new illustrations - Helpful supplements on writing, usage, and metric measurements - Updated geographical and biographical entries integrated throughout the easy A to Z listing - Common abbreviations - Hundreds of word histories and etymologies - Clear and easy-to-understand usage notes and labels - Features the latest business and computer terms <br />Random House Webster's Dictionary is your one-stop reference book. Based on the latest edition of the bestselling and authoritative Random House Webster's College Dictionary and prepared by a staff of lexicographic experts, this handy, modern, and affordable dictionary is the resource for all your word questions! With Newer Words Faster, you'll also find the latest slang, business, and computer terms defined with clarity and precision. No other paperback dictionary gives you more!
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  ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 2011
  
  
  Copyright (C) 1975 by The Foxfire Fund, Inc.
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a
  division of Random House, Inc., New York.
  
  
  Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  This material originally appeared in _Foxfire 3_ , (C) 1975 by The Foxfire
  Fund, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.
  
  
  eISBN: 978-0-307-94830-4
  
  
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  # Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [_Cover_](Stud_9780307948304_epub_cvi_r1.htm)
  
  
  [_Title Page_](Stud_9780307948304_epub_tp_r1.htm)
  
  
  [_Copyright_](Stud_9780307948304_epub_cop_r1.htm)
  
  
  [A Note About The Foxfire Americana Library
  Series](Stud_9780307948304_epub_fm1_r1.htm)
  
  
  
  
  
  [**Banjos**](Stud_9780307948304_epub_c01_r1.htm#c01a)
  
  
  [**Dulcimers**](Stud_9780307948304_epub_c01_r1.htm#c02a)
  
  
  [The Peg Head](Stud_97