The glossary
10,766 words the library's own pages use, glossed from two dictionaries on its shelves: 1,685 esoteric terms from Blavatsky's Theosophical Glossary (1892), in her definitions with her language tags, and 8,589 hard words from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), each with the syllables and stress as Webster marks them. In the reader, the Gl button underlines these words on the page; a click shows the entry. Nothing here is written by the library: every line is the dictionary's.
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How this was made, and what it leaves out
Webster's marks. The Gutenberg transcription of the 1913 Webster (ebooks 660–670) keeps his syllable division and accents as marks on the headword: a middle dot divides syllables, a prime (′) follows the syllable with the primary accent and a double prime (‵) the secondary, so Ab‵ra·ca·dab′ra is stressed on the fourth syllable. The respelling in parentheses that Webster printed after each headword was mostly not typed in that transcription, and "&?;", which it prints for a Greek or special character, is shown as [?]. The transcription calls itself "a first typing, with numerous typographic errors"; entries are shown as it has them.
Which words. Every headword in Blavatsky's glossary is an esoteric term. A Webster headword is a hard word when the library's text uses it on between 3 and 1,000 pages, by the search index, and Webster himself marks it as learned — obsolete, rare or archaic, a field label such as (Theol.), (Alchemy), (Astrol.), (Myth.) or (Antiq.), or a Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit or other classical etymology. Words the books use on every page are not glossed, nor are the names of persons and places from Webster's appendices. Inflected forms are not matched: the reader underlines theurgy, not theurgies.
The dictionary itself is not on the shelves, so that a search for any English word does not land on it; Webster's entries cite the Gutenberg ebook and line instead. Blavatsky's entries link to the page of her book in the reader. 12,199 Webster senses and 2,189 Blavatsky entries were read; nothing was corrected.
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