Dear Paul ~

Don't let tsuwm's curt answer -- "buy a better dictionary" -- put you off. He gets that way from time to time, having to do with the lunar cycle, I suspect.

My Chambers Dictionary (from the Mother Country) does not include this word ... and I do not intend to replace it.

Lots of folks on this board use on-line dictionaries for those cases where deep etymology is not needed. Somewhere on the board there is a list of their URL's but I can't now recall where. Perhaps one of the others will have it at hand.

Welcome to the feast!

Father Steve