I work best with hardback dictionaries at my work location. The cover finally fell off the old dictionary. I saw this one and it was cheep and available. I paid for it while the wrapper was still on.
Well I may have made a mistake. First this one has no index tabs. I looked up some well-used words such as "kine" and got just two word definition cow and cattle. The previous dictionary "Webster's II New revised University Dictionary", described even the word history and covered the changes in history. I show that the word came from Middle English as "ku". And that it persisted until the 17th century. This word is used in an Ayn Rand book and would not make sense if you only had the "New World College Dictionary" I also looked up acetylene and found a fair definition but it had room for the formula and did not display it.
The definitions are squeezed out to make room for pictures. On the next page is a portrait of Martin Luther King. There are all kinds of pretty pictures of people. If you are interested in people and not spelling or anything in-depth, then this dictionary for you
In the mean time I will suffer with this until I have time to find a real dictionary. However it may do for you.
Practical info:
Nearly 7,500 entries for today's world.
4 color world atlas and numerous tables and charts.
Thousands of Geographical and Biographical Entries.
Helpful notes, examples and Synonyms.
Includes unique Americanisms.
