Re: define difficult

I don't know about the enlightenment part. Not standing on one foot, anyway. 
But here are the instructions for both functions:

wordsmith email dictionary and thesaurus

to get a definition, send a message to ws@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

In the subject field, write define, put a space, then type the word whose 
definition you want.

Search a thesaurus by putting the two words synonym and your target word in 
the subject field of an otherwise blank message.

example would be a subject line that read:


synonymn difficult

wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

(the isntrucitons I've seen don't say anything about antonyms, but you could 
always experiment.)co8lantnyms


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Judith Bron" <jbron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: define difficult


Thanks Yardbird, obviously each entry contains thesaurus listings.  Thanks
again, Judith
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "JFW List" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:02 PM
Subject: Fw: define difficult


> 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:
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Wordsmith" <wsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2006 6:16 PM
> Subject: define difficult
>
>
> 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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