Finally, in late January 1825, after nearly eighteen years of digging endlessly through dictionaries and composing tens of thousands of definitions, Noah dipped his feather pen into the inkwell for one last word: zygomatic (having to do with the cheekbone in the skull). Forty-two words later, his pen tip touched the paper once, leaving a tiny dot as the final period. His dictionary was complete.
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