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Lots of 'adopted' words in there too, then you really get into weird spellings. I'm a huge fan of homoeopathy, actually, but Abraham Lincoln apparently was not. He likened it to (exact quote) "the boiled-down shadow of a pigeon"!
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Your response is very kind, of troy. I like to fit my web work to be 'big' enough to be useful but not so big to cost a lot. It's chickenfeed to host a site these days, so I'll never up ads. They don't work anyway, which I find ironically beautiful (or should that be beautifully ironic...?) Either way. :-) BTW, what is tsuwm's site?
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An afterthought along the same lines (internet ads), I nixed Bartleby from the 'table of links' because they pop up two %$@%-ing ad windows every time you look up a word. (And it was rare to find anything there anyway. Darn sour grapes.)
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Syzygy has always been one of my favorite words; it has such beauty of form and function. I don't know about froehold, but I did find froe in the OED - to summarize: 1. A wedge-shaped tool used for cleaving and riving staves, shingles, etc... or, Obs. form of Frow, Dutchwoman. Doesn't exactly sound related to froehold, based on the seizin definition.
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He uses a link as a signature file. you could scroll up, but here is its http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/ WWFTD stand for the worthless word for the day... a rather eclectic selection of words.. not quite worthless, but of very limited value.. but that does sound as catchy!
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You asked for it, you got it:
pyx n.: 1. a box, a coffer, a vase; 2. The vessel in which the host or consecrated bread of the sacrament is reserved.
pyx v.: to put something into a pyx. pyxing vbl. sp.
(OED again)
And thanks for the 'plugs'!
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It is a great time sucker for sure! That's why I built it actually: I have a long overnight shift at work. Myself, I enjoy the Easter egg hunt... there's not an egg under every bush. I'm not sure I ken your last sentence - the Word Browser *does* give you a word list and onelook and google...?
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>onelook and google...? OneLook.com gets you to almost all of the available online dictionaries in one crack (OED excepted) and google.com still seems to be the best of the search engines (any other opinions?). so these two suffice for most of my treasure hunts. (well, add in the OED occasionally :) edit wouldn't it be kewl if Bob Ware (of OneLook) could work out a deal with OUP to give a look into the OED, say for words that don't turn up in M-W or AHD? (it would seem like great exposure, but it'll never happen!) btw, Josh, it would help those of us who view posts in flat mode if you gave us some context, so we'd know which of the many posts here you are responding to. http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
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tsuwm,
I have just seen your site and I'm gobsmacked - I would have guessed you to be a big WB (Word Browser) fan! You have an AMAZING list of words there... where did you get them all? Just as a source of fresh ground chuck I should think the WB would serve you true. But alas, you're a tea drinker, not grill cook. :-) Keep up the great work with wwftd!
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A faw is a gypsy, esp. one of a particular tribe of Scottish gypsies. (OED)
Phrontistery is list of fewer than 14,000 words, the WB database is 263,533 words. But since Phr. has the definitions, it quite a lot less frustrating :-) God, the labor he has put into that thing! Phew! I wish his site was searchable, so I could plug into it from the Word Browser!
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