What Is the Definition of a Dictionary?

In the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea was everything but the kitchen saint just keep adding words. But there were an enormous number of proper nouns in what had been considered an encyclopaedic dictionary. And so that brings us to a sort of nuanced rule, how doo keep what do you keep? In webster's third you would only have an entry for romeo because it can be used generically to mean a young male lover. So we are providing information about words as they are used as words, not about characters or plot devices.