Third-person singular simple present indicative form of swallow the dictionary

To speak using long or obscure words.

plural of pocket dictionary

plural of historical dictionary

plural of dictionary on historical principles

(lexicography) A dictionary on historical principles.

(lexicography) A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.

plural of data dictionary

(computing) A document or repository that describes the data and metadata within a system.

A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.