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Thus, a dictionary with approximately 80,000 headwords, the size of American college dictionaries, contains more than 170,000 entries.
I do not know how many headwords the MW-III contains, but it is far, far fewer than the 450,000 entries claimed.
In a typical college dictionary, which might have, say, 85,000 headwords the entry count (which is prominently displayed in the jacket blurbs) is about twice that, or 170,000.
It cannot be compared with a dictionary, per se: its headwords serve more as a point of departure for McCully to hold forth on the myriad aspects of an activity—I hesitate calling fishing a “sport”— which he evidently knows and loves so well.
To give you a sample of what's to come, let me mention a few representative headwords from Volume IV—chosen simply because I like them.