"The Professor and the Madman" subj.

• Book whose second edition was 21,728 pages, briefly
• Ref. work with over 45,000 obsolete words
• Citation-filled ref.
• Brit word bk
• Ref. with no proper nouns in its earliest edition
• Large ref. book
• Ref. that has a zed section
• 20-vol. work
• Venerable reference wk

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
initialism (acronym) of Oxford English Dictionary , attested from 1898, according to the "Oxford English Dictionary."