¹ Lang. 16.308–18. The accompanying criticism of Webster reflects certain wrong impressions of this work. Thus, the editors of Webster scrupulously avoid posing as ‘pundits’, merely condensing and transcribing the record of actual usage contained in vast collections of citations accumulated for well over a century past; and they are under specific injunction against the use of secondary sources, including other dictionaries.

² I have omitted non-descriptive statements, for brevity. Twenty-odd qualifying phrases are appended, e.g. Philippine mahogany.

³ NED s.v. madeira ¹; the cits., confusingly arranged, begin with Shakespeare I Henry IV.