— Medial hyphens were omitted. Entries with final hyphen, for spelling variations, are generally not linked; when necessary, the final hyphen was changed to a line _.
— When necessary to resolve ambiguity, initial + or ± is included in the anchor as ge_.
— Headwords with multiple definitions are identified by Roman numeral matching the text: ham ... II. ... III. = word_ham_ii, word_ham_iii.
[Hyphens]
In references to the OED (“New English Dictionary”), printed as italicized English words in ‘single quotes’, hyphenization does not always correspond to the OED form. These inconsistencies were left as printed; words split at line-end were not generally checked against their OED form.