Definition of "word-memory" [word-memory]

• The memory of words; the power of recalling words to the mind. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Variables A variable stands for a byte - or word-memory location."
• "Seen several months ago it fills my eye-imagination and eye-memory more than that particular piece of Tennyson's fills word-imagination and word-memory."
• "There are really no separate classes, but only different kinds of word-memory in different degrees of excellence as regards the first three; and as regards the fourth there is no one kind of memory developed to a preponderating degree."