Well, Google's define feature was better, since I didn't have to look up two words to get the definition of the one I wanted.
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Hi all, Well, I looked it up with my "dict" program and this is what I found. tabid 1 definition found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tabid \Tab"id\, a. [L. tabidus: cf. F. tabide. See {Tabes}.] (Med.) Affected by tabes; tabetic. [1913 Webster] In tabid persons, milk is the bset restorative. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] -- {Tab"id*ly}, adv. -- {Tab"id*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] TabificI then went back to the "dict" program and looked up tabes. Here is what I found.tabes 3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Tabes \Ta"bes\ (t[=a]"b[=e]z), n. [L., a wasting disease.] (Med.) Progressive emaciation of the body, accompanied with hectic fever, with no well-marked local symptoms. [1913 Webster] {Tabes dorsalis} (t[=a]"b[=e]z d[^o]r*s[=a]"l[i^]s) [NL., tabes of the back], locomotor ataxia; -- sometimes called simply tabes. {Tabes mesenterica}[NL., mesenteric tabes], a wasting disease of childhood characterized by chronic inflammation of the lymphatic glands of the mesentery, attended with caseous degeneration. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: tabes n : wasting of the body during a chronic disease From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 113 Moby Thesaurus words for "tabes": French disease, Spanish pox, VD, abscess, acquired syphilis, ague, anemia, ankylosis, anoxia, apnea, asphyxiation, asthma, ataxia, atrophy, attenuation, backache, balanitis gangrenosa, bleeding, blennorhea, cachexia, cachexy, cerebral tabes, chancre, chancroid, chill, chills, clap, claps, climatic bubo, colic, congenital syphilis, constipation, constitutional syphilis, convulsion, coughing, cyanosis, diarrhea, dizziness, dose, dose of clap, dropsy, dysentery, dyspepsia, dyspnea, edema, emaceration, emaciation, fainting, fatigue, fever, fibrillation, fifth venereal disease, flux, general paresis, gonorrhea, granuloma inguinale, granuloma venereum, great pox, growth, hard chancre, hemorrhage, high blood pressure, hydrops, hypertension, hypotension, icterus, indigestion, inflammation, insomnia, itching, jaundice, labored breathing, latent syphilis, locomotor ataxia, low blood pressure, lumbago, marasmus, morbus Gallicus, nasal discharge, nausea, necrosis, pain, paralysis, paralytic dementia, paresis, pox, pruritus, pudendal ulcer, rash, rheum, sclerosis, seizure, shock, simple chancre, skin eruption, sneezing, social disease, soft chancre, sore, spasm, syph, syphilis, syphilitic meningoencephalitis, tabes dorsales, tachycardia, tertiary syphilis, tropical bubo, tumor, upset stomach, venereal disease, vertigo, vomiting, wasting There you go, Kim. Probably more than you wanted but, you did ask. Ann P. On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 02:08:00AM -0700, Kim Friedman wrote:Hi, Evan, Kim here. I got a Concise Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus on a compact flash card from Humanware. I mention this because I think itis too concise. In other words, it doesn't have definitions for all thewords in the language. I wanted to look up a definition for the word "tabid" a word I know Donaldson used, but the dictionary had no definition for it. I thought to myself, "What kind of a dictionary is his?" The point of having a dictionary is to find out about all the ways people have used a particularword. I don't know if I've made myself clear here. I want to know thedefinitions of words I don't know, not ones for words which are garden everyday sort of words. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder. _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of EVAN REESE Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:20 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest booksThose were fabulous books IMHO, as were the Second Chronicles. I expect to soon be starting the Final Chronicles; and if they approach the quality ofthe first two, I know I will love them as well.You are definitely right about the large vocabulary. I encountered more newwords from him than I had in years of reading before that. <grin> Evan----- Original Message ----- From: Kim <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> FriedmanTo: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 10:11 PM Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books Hi, Roger, I don't know if you've ever read The Chronicles of ThomasCovenant, by Stephen Donaldson, but he used the dream device in his first trilogy. I wouldn't call him an awful writer, but I can say he had a largevocabulary and didn't mind using it. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder. _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 4:19 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest booksSpeaking of language changes, there also have been changes in writing stylesand literary devices. I don't recall any commentary on this but I have noticed a literary device that was frequently employed in the latenineteenth and early twentyeth centuries that no writer would get away withtoday. That is that when a novel contained elements of the fantastic the author explained everything by just having the protagonist wake up at the end of the novel and realize that the entire story had been a dream. Thatwas used in Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy and The Man Who was Tuesday by G. K. Chesterton. There were some others too, the titles of which slip mymind right now. I suppose, at one time, that was considered good writing. Nowadays it would cause groans and eye rolling. "If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine." Che Guevara The Militant: http://www.themilitant.com/txtindex.shtml <http://wwww.themilitant.com> Pathfinder Press: http://www.pathfinderpress.com Granma International: http://granma.cu/ingles/index.html _ table with 2 columns and 6 rows Subj: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish list: Bower-Litten contest books Date: 7/4/2009 4:28:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx Reply-to: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from the Internet (Details) table endHi, Shelley, Kim here. Can you imagine what fun good writers have when theydeliberately set out to write badly? I'm interested in seeing books aboutlanguage quirks and changes. What do you think of dictionaries of slang? I remember having a lot of fun reading I Hear America Talking by Stewart Bird Flexner because he listed all manner of expressions indicating the lack ofsobriety of a person? Some priceless expressions I can recall are: being foxed, pie-eyed, being three sheets to the wind, on the sauce, etc. Ipersonally wouldn't care to be pickled, stewed or dipsomaniacal, but I like drinking songs. At least I don't suffer from hangovers, maybe just a case oflaryngitis should my voice become hoarse. Regards, Kim aka Ellinder. -----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Shelley L. RhodesSent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 7:26 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Wish list: Bower-Litten contest booksHi here is the list of the contest winners, from all the years. Bookshare doesn't have any of these, neither alas does my library system, but perhapssomeone out there has them and can add them smile to Bookshare.It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night"Bride of Dark and Stormy It Was a Dark & Stormy Night: The Final ConflictDark and Stormy Rides Again Shelley L. Rhodes, M.A., VRT And Guinevere: Golden Lady Guide Dog guidinggolden@xxxxxxxxx Guide Dogs for the Blind Alumni Association www.guidedogs.comThe people who burned witches at the stake never for one moment thought oftheir act as violence; rather they thought of it as an act of divinely mandated righteousness.The same can be said of most of the violence we humans have ever committed.-Gil Bailie, author and lecturer (b. 1944) To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxput the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list ofavailable commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line. 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