Merriam. America's best-selling dictionary! An attractive, burgundy leather-look version featuring more than 215,000 clear & precise definitions, 700 illustrations, & up-to-date coverage of words. Special sections include a Handbook of Style. Annotation. America's best-selling dictionary! An attractive burgundy leather-look version featuring more than 215,000 clear and precise definitions, 700 illustrations, and up-to-date coverage of words. Special sections including a Handbook of Style. Prepared by a distinguished staff of scholars who rely on a bank of close to 15 million citations documenting word usage, this invaluable resource is a treasury of essnetial information about English that includes 160,000 entries covering the most widely used words in the English vocabulary. "This remains the same great college-level desk dictionary that so many of us grew up with and continue to depend on."