Excerpt from The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Including All the Words in Common Use Defined So That They Can Be Easily Understood
Pictorial Illustrations. In a similar way the meanings of many words can be immediately made clear by pictures. The illustrations in this dictionary are new pictures prepared for their teaching value in clarifying the meanings of words that need pictorial illumination.
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