Re: define difficult

I notice that the definitions on this website are ancient. I will stay with Google and thank Blake for his one-keystroke solution. Typically, Google also gives a link to the definition above the search results, although not in the simplified www.google.com/ie mode. 
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Here's an example. I created a new message to wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, and in the subject line, typed only define difficult 

And sent it off. Here's the reply:

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2 definitions found

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, v. t. To render difficult; to impede; to perplex. [R.] --Sir W. Temple. 

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Difficult \Dif"fi*cult\, a. [From {Difficulty}.] 1. Hard to do or to make; beset with difficulty; attended with labor, trouble, or pains; not easy; arduous.
Note: Difficult implies the notion that considerable mental effort or skill is required, or that obstacles are to be overcome which call for sagacity and skill in the agent; as, a difficult task; hard work is not always difficult work; a difficult operation in surgery; a difficult passage in an author.
There is not the strength or courage left me to venture into the wide, strange, and difficult world, alone. --Hawthorne.
2. Hard to manage or to please; not easily wrought upon; austere; stubborn; as, a difficult person.
Syn: Arduous; painful; crabbed; perplexed; laborious; unaccommodating; troublesome. See {Arduous}. 

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