1. Useful definitions are given by the Oxford English Dictionary.

2. New Zealand Listener references in the Oxford English Dictionary?

3. The Oxford English Dictionary cites it around the year 900 in the Laws of King Alfred.

4. In The Oxford English Dictionary the term gun moll is said to be American slang for a female thief or an armed woman.

5. Few dictionaries other than the vaunted Oxford English Dictionary provide enough usage examples.

6. This is the Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) in electronic form, on CD - ROM disk 15 centimetres wide.

7. Take for example The Oxford English Dictionary citation dated 1646. It refers to King Richard II as being tantalized at Pontefract Castle.

8. Sure enough the Oxford English Dictionary traces mess back to Anglo-Norman and Old French before that.

9. The Oxford English Dictionary tells me that the parent word was heriberga in Old High German and that this word breaks down as heri meaning "army" and berga meaning "shelter."

10. But in its own market, the Oxford English Dictionary CD is phenomenal value for money.

11. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for ketchup hasn't yet been updated for the third edition and has as its most recent citation an item dated 1874.

12. According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term capitalism was first used by novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in 1854 in The Newcomes, where he meant "having ownership of capital".

13. The multi - volume Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) lists and defines all words in the English language.

14. According to both The Oxford English Dictionary and the American Heritage Dictionary, in ancient Greek the bivalve shells you might find at the beach were called ostrakon.

15. When the Concise Oxford English Dictionary announced in 2006 that the word time was the most-often used noun in the English language, it didn't seem surprising.

16. When I look up ducks in The Oxford English Dictionary one of the first things it says is "a swimming bird of the genus Anas."

17. The latest 20 - volume - plus Oxford English Dictionary will fit in your back pocket.

18. The Oxford English Dictionary refers to two guys— Pliny and Nicander—in its etymology for the word magnet.

19. The Oxford English Dictionary entry for flatter admits that its etymology is "doubtful" but suggests that flatter may be related to flat.

20. The Oxford English Dictionary reveals that the first instance of the word appearing in English was back in 1624 from the pen of one Edward Winslow in a work called Good Newes from New England.

21. The Oxford English Dictionary shows that the word has been around since 1377. At first it seemed to be a wooden shoe, perhaps one that had a wooden sole but leather uppers.

22. In 1879 , James Murray was hired as the editor of The Oxford English Dictionary.

23. The catchphrase "simples" (meaning something very easy to achieve) from the Meerkat TV advertisements tops a list of the words of 2009 compiled by the Oxford English Dictionary, the Sun reported.

24. I called up an expert on language for some insight into this issue: Jesse Sheidlower, lexicographer and editor at large of the Oxford English Dictionary.

25. To get the deeper truth we need to burrow deeper into the hobbit hole and The Oxford English Dictionary is the place to do that.

26. So, there's this guy, right?Victorian era, James Murray, first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

27. Furnivall went on to be the second editor of what became The Oxford English Dictionary.