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dord n.
1934, a ghost word printed in “Webster’s New International Dictionary” and defined as a noun used by physicists and chemists, meaning “density.” In sorting out and separating abbreviations from words in preparing the dictionary’s second edition, a card marked “D or d” meaning “density” somehow migrated from the “abbreviations” stack to the “words” stack. The “D or d” entry ended up being typeset as a word, dord, and defined as a synonym for density. The mistake was discovered in 1939.
Examples from the Web for dord Contemporary Examples of dord
And the word “dord,” one of the strangest in the whole dictionary, is known as a “ghost word.”
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Historical Examples of dord
So Finn sounded the Dord Fiann, and they answered with a shout, every one hurrying to be the first.
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Finn sounded the Dord Fiann then, and Daire played some sorrowful music to let their people know where they were.
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