Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is regarded by many as the finest English
dictionary ever published. The dictionary is available in many forms. I made the content available here for my own purposes,
out of personal admiration for this particular dictionary.
A'CHOR, n. [Gr., sordes capitis.] 1. The scald head, a disease forming scaly eruptions, supposed to be a critical evacuation of acrimonious humors; a species of herpes. 2. In mythology, the God of flies, said to have been worshipped by the Cyreneans, to avoid being vexed by those insects.