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| 1. | Joseph Emerson, 1784–1865, U.S. lexicographer. |
| 2. | a city in central Massachusetts. 161,799. |
| 3. | a city in Hereford and Worcester, in W England, on the Severn: cathedral; Cromwell's defeat of the Scots 1651. 74,300. |
| 4. | Worcestershire. |
| Worcester, Joseph Emerson 1784-1865. American lexicographer. The publication of his Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary of the English Language (1830) brought charges of plagiarism from Noah Webster and started the battle known as the "Dictionary War." |