WEBSTER, Noah, author of the New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, was born at West Hartford, Connecticut, United States, on the 16th of October 1758. He entered Yale College in 1774, where he graduated in 1778 with much distinction. Though called to the bar in 1781, he did not practise law, but turned aside to the profession of teaching. He wrote a number of elementary educational works, which were much esteemed during their day, besides taking a leading part in the discussion of American politics, of which his Sketches of American Policy still afford a monument. The great work of his life, however, was his Dictionary, published in 1828, at which he laboured for twenty-one years, and which, in its explanations, was considerably in advance of any English dictionary then in existence, but of which the etymological portion was more showy than profound. After receiving from his college the degree of LL.D., Webster died at Newhaven, May 28, 1843.