wordbook

[Cf. Ger. wörterbuch =a dictionary, from worter, pl. of wort a word, and buch =a book.] A dictionary, a vocabulary, a lexicon. *word-bound, a. Restrained or restricted in speech; unable or unwilling to expre one's self: bound by one's word. IMG:content-1015.png:[blocks in formation] "The work of a paradoxical word - monger who did not know what he was writing about."-London Daily Tele. graph .