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Re: Does anyone have a really good dictionary?



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John,
    What a great idea to have the glossery.  And how fast it came about.
You must have been thinking about it already.  I fear I have mislead you,
Desiderata and Scryer were not words I found related to Sinclairs but given
their background the Scryer might creep in there sometime.
Laurel
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>
>>Help!
>>    It has occurred to me that maybe one of you has a really good
dictionary
>>to recommend or what is the situation on a dictionary CD?.  Here is my
list
>>of test words:
>
>Since there are often Sinclair-specific uses of such terms, I have started
>a Clan Sinclair glossary, using the definitions sent to the list recently.
>See
> http://www.mids.org/sinclair/
>and look in New Items under G for glossary.  All these words are now in it.
>
>>bothy=I found this on our website, ie: Noss Head Light house has a
>>self-catering bothy
>>Desiderata=name of a creed found in Old St. Paul's Church, Baltimore dated
>>maybe
>>        1690.  Have to check the date out but that doesn't matter.  I have
>>been looking for
>>        this word for over a year and ..there it was in the Madman book
>>described above,
>>        but still couldn't tell what it meant.
>
>Actually, the poem was written in 1927 by Max Ehrmann, who copyrighted it.
>See the glossary.
>
>>scryer=one dictionary had a definition but it was only about 5 words long.
>>dapifer=as in Eudo Sinclair was a dapifer, from the Morrison book pg 24
>
>Thanks,
>John
>--
>John Sinclair Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
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