These values are cited by the dictionary makers, and may not use exactly the same definition of a headword.
Heed not the definitions your "Unabridged" presents, For dictionary makers are generally gents.
What I find really striking is that literary reading is completely ignored by dictionary makers.
Another claimed that "prejudice and competition" was preventing dictionary makers from listing such spellings.
And the result is a life which, very possibly, will do for the old Queen what Boswell did for the old dictionary maker.
For a dictionary maker he had an unfortunate lack of patience, discipline and accuracy.
Tradition is one of those words, like country and natural, that the dictionary makers should probably revise.
At the level of slang, the turnover rate is so rapid that it has forced dictionary makers to change their criteria for word inclusion.
Although dictionary makers often see their work as purely descriptive, their dictionaries are widely used as prescriptive authorities by the community at large.
The achievements of the great dictionary makers of England's seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were prodigious indeed.