Mistaken, I disappeared, blotchy and drug-trim, another lexicographer of desire and ruin.

The lexicographer Fr Patrick Dinneen was a regular source of inspiration for Myles.

His mother was the daughter of Noah Webster, LL.D., the lexicographer.

The great lexicographer had, however, a high estimation of this official.

Former lexicographer and Irish Times columnist Diarmaid Ó Muirithe died suddenly in Vienna yesterday.