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I was getting tired up looking things up in a dead-wood dictionary
(see the headers for details), so I whipped up a thing to look words
up in a local Webster database.  I've put the results at
<URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/elisp/dict.el>.  Now, to use the thing,
you need the Webster database as well, and I have absolutely no idea
where one can find that.  Certainly not as
<URL:http://quimby.gnus.org/elisp/webster.tgz>, since that would be
naughty, the dictionary being copyrighted and all and me not being a
WaReZ person.  And if it were there, I'm sure it would disappear
pretty soon in any case, and I'm sure no-one would download it before
it was deleted, if it was there, which it isn't.

Carry on.  Nothing to see here.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen