N.E.D.
1885 as abbreviation of New English Dictionary, the short form of the name under which the Oxford English Dictionary was published (A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles). It began to appear in volumes in 1884; in 1895 the title Oxford English Dictionary first appeared on the covers.
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