Ref. staple that used to come with a magnifying glass

• Well-known dict.
• Ref. with about 22,000 pages
• Voluminous ref. work
• Twenty-volume ref. for writers
• Webster's Third competitor, for short
• Classic ref. work
• Its last word is "zyxt": Abbr.
• Its first vol. covered A to Ant
• Bks. with millions of quotations

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initialism (acronym) of Oxford English Dictionary , attested from 1898, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary."