This dictionary is Copyright 1993 by Denis Howe. Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this dictionary or works derived from it, provided that every such copy or derived work carries the above copyright notice and is distributed under terms identical to these. Individual definitions from this dictionary may be used without restriction provided no more than twenty are used in any one work. The dictionary has been growing since 1985 and now contains over 12000 definitions totalling more than four megabytes.
Entries are cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net.
Cross-references to other entries look like this . Note that not all cross-references actually lead anywhere yet, but if you find one that leads to something inappropriate, please let me know. Dates after entries indicate when that entry was last updated. If you find an entry that is wrong or inadequate please let me know. See Pronunciation for how to interpret the pronunciation given for some entries.