rapine: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement 101 Questions Answered! What do Muslims believe? How bad is bird flu? Who's to blame for income tax? Click here for the KnowledgeNews answers!      Word of the Day for Saturday, May 6, 2006   rapine \RAP-in\, noun: The act of plundering; the seizing and carrying away of another's property by force.   He who has once begun to live by rapine always finds reasons for taking what is not his. -- Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (translated by N.H. Thomson) Extortion and rapine are poor providers. -- Olaudah Equiano, Unchained Voices: an anthology of Black authors in the English-Speaking World of the 18th Century The war, proclaimed William Lloyd Garrison, was one "of aggression, of invasion, of conquest, and rapine - marked by ruffianism, perfidy, and every other feature of national depravity." -- Robert W. Johannsen, "America's Forgotten War (Mexican War, 1846-1848)", The Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1996 Rapine derives from Latin rapina, from rapere, "to seize and carry off, to snatch or hurry away," which also gives us rapid. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for rapine   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6714769-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

execrable: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

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wag: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement Student Debt Got You Down? Want to lower your monthly payments by up to 40%? Consolidate Today! Click here to lower your student loan payment by 53%!      Word of the Day for Thursday, May 4, 2006   wag \WAG\, noun: A humorous person; a wit; a joker.   The master of ceremonies was one Boston, a noted wag, and the occasion seemed to promise the greatest facetiousness. -- Francis Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp Yet the fate of all three reformers was more or less the same. Washington remained much as it had been before. ("Only more so," a wag might add.) -- Jonathan Rauch, Government's End Some wag has summed up the three laws of thermodynamics in everyday terms: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even. 3. You can't get out of the game. -- John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, Almost Everyone's Guide to Science Wag in this sense perhaps comes from the obsolete wag-halter, "a rogue; one likely to be hanged." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for wag   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6707132-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

temerity: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 3, 2006   temerity \tuh-MER-uh-tee\, noun: Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger; rashness.   The elaborate caution with which the British commander now proceeded stands out in striking contrast with the temerity of his advance upon Bunker Hill in the preceding year. -- John Fiske, "Washington's Great Campaign of 1776", The Atlantic, January 1889 When English merchants had the temerity to set up a trading post or 'factory' -- junior merchants were known as factors -- the Dutchmen defended their monopoly by massacring them. -- Anthony Read and David Fisher, The Proudest Day Drivers with the temerity to accelerate out of turns are likely to encounter torque steer, an unsettling glitch in control as the engine fights to take charge of the steering. -- Peter Passell, "Mitsubishi Diamante: Back From Down Under", New York Times, February 23, 1997 Throughout the anti-trust trial its executives treated the courts and the US government with sneering contempt, coupled with a ratty annoyance that any public authority should have the temerity to interfere in its business. -- John Naughton, "Gates must not win at monopoly", The Observer, October 28, 2001 Temerity comes from Latin temeritas, from temere, blindly, rashly. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for temerity   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6702257-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

daedal: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement mental_floss magazine Where Knowledge Junkies Get Their Fix Click here to feel smart again!      Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 2, 2006   daedal \DEE-duhl\, adjective: 1. Complex or ingenious in form or function; intricate. 2. Skillful; artistic; ingenious. 3. Rich; adorned with many things.   Most Web-site designers realize that large image maps and daedal layouts are to be avoided, and the leading World Wide Web designers have reacted to users' objections to highly graphical, slow sites by using uncluttered, easy-to-use layouts. -- "Fixing Web-site usability", InfoWorld, December 15, 1997 He gathered toward the end of his life a very extensive collection of illustrated books and illuminated manuscripts, and took heightened pleasure in their daedal patterns as his own strength declined. -- Florence S. Boos, preface to The Collected Letters of William Morris I sang of the dancing stars, I sang of the daedal earth, And of heaven, and the giant wars, And love, and death, and birth. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn Of Pan" Daedal comes from Latin daedalus, "cunningly wrought," from Greek daidalos, "skillful, cunningly created." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for daedal   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6697686-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

luminary: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement Out of every 1,000 people, the most organized person will probably achieve the most, do it faster with the least amount of effort AND have the most free time... I Am Organized Now! can help you be that one in a 1,000. Save $10 now during the introduction of I Am Organized Now! Click here to learn how simple & easy it is to be truly organized.      Word of the Day for Monday, May 1, 2006   luminary \LOO-muh-nair-ee\, noun: 1. Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies. 2. A person of eminence or brilliant achievement.   Those who came to the Pyrenees sought the sublime in the mountains and the exotic in the population, drawn by the descriptions of ethnographers and literary luminaries like Vigny, Sand, Baudelaire and Flaubert. -- Ruth Harris, Lourdes . . .such jazz luminaries as Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford, Louis Armstrong, and Earl Hines. -- Daniel Mark Epstein, Nat King Cole There's something comforting in those occasional lapses when a luminary lurches and trips over the humble stone his powerful torch somehow failed to reveal. -- Brad Leithauser, "You Haven't Heard the Last of This", New York Times, August 30, 1998 Luminary derives from Latin luminare, "a window," from lumin-, lumen, "light." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for luminary   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6693267-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

gloaming: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement A Cure for Brain Flab! One brain-building, at-a-glance email a day helps keep unsightly ignorance away. Click here for the KnowledgeNews cure!      Word of the Day for Sunday, April 30, 2006   gloaming \GLOH-ming\, noun: Twilight; dusk.   The children squealed and waved and smiled, their teeth flashing white in the gloaming. -- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life It was the gloaming, when a man cannot make out if the nebulous figure he glimpses in the shadows is angel or demon, when the face of evening is stained by red clouds and wounded by lights. -- Homero Aridjis, 1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezon of Castile (translated by Betty Ferber) Arrived at the village station on a wintry evening, when the gloaming is punctuated by the cheery household lamps, shining here and there like golden stars, through the leafless trees. -- Margaret Sangster Gloaming comes from Old English glomung, from glom, "dusk." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for gloaming   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6690510-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

microcosm: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement 101 Questions Answered! What do Muslims believe? How bad is bird flu? Who's to blame for income tax? Click here for the KnowledgeNews answers!      Word of the Day for Saturday, April 29, 2006   microcosm \MY-kruh-koz-uhm\, noun: 1. A little world. Hence, man or human nature as a supposed epitome of the world or universe (compare macrocosm). 2. A smaller, representative system having analogies to a larger system.   The monarch and his followers thought of the court as a microcosm of how the kingdom ought to be, the harmonious expression of a social order centred on the monarch. -- John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination There is a classic Jimmy Stewart movie, Magic Town, about "Grandview," a small town in the Midwest that is a perfect statistical microcosm of the United States, a place where the citizens' opinions match perfectly with Gallup polls of the entire nation. -- James S. Fishkin, The Voice of the People New York saw itself as a quasi-independent political and cultural entity that was both a microcosm of and a model for the nation as a whole. -- Robert A. M. Stern, New York 1880 Microcosm comes from Greek mikros kosmos, "small world." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for microcosm   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6688546-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

provenance: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Friday, April 28, 2006   provenance \PROV-uh-nuhn(t)s\, noun: Origin; source.   In a world awash in information of dubious provenance, whom can you trust to tell you the truth? -- Gerald Jonas, review of The Jazz, by Melissa Scott, New York Times, June 18, 2000 There may have been as many as one hundred antique statues of Roman provenance in the city at the time of the Fourth Crusade. -- Patricia Fortini Brown, Venice & Antiquity The provenance of his possessions traced back to dukes and duchesses, kings, queens, czars, emperors, and dictators. -- John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Provenance comes from French, from provenant, present participle of provenir, "to originate," ultimately from Latin provenire, from pro-, "forth" + venire, "to come." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for provenance   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6685191-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

harridan: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Thursday, April 27, 2006   harridan \HAIR-uh-din\, noun: A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag.   With the insight of hindsight, I'd have liked to have been able to protect my mother from the domineering old harridan, with her rough tongue and primitive sense of justice, but I did not see it like that, then. -- Angela Carter, Shaking a Leg Whatever compassion we may feel towards Seraphie, charged with managing the Beyle household and provided with little in the way of emotional or material recompense, evidence scarcely softens Stendhal's portrait of an ignorant, vindictive, mean-spirited harridan. -- Jonathan Keates, Stendhal Even before that, for the first year and a half, as reports and rumors seeped out that she was a harridan, yelling and throwing things at subordinates as well as at her husband and his aides, she would often think to herself, "What's going on here? Why are some of these people slandering me or my husband on a daily basis? Why is all this stuff happening?" -- David Maraniss, "First Lady of Paradox", Washington Post, January 15, 1995 As the vulgar, scornful, desperate Martha, Miss Hagen makes a tormented harridan horrifyingly believable. -- Howard Taubman, "The Theater: Albee's 'Who's Afraid'", New York Times, October 15, 1962 Harridan probably comes from French haridelle, "a worn-out horse, a gaunt woman." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for harridan   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6680599-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

At Home and At Work: Two monitors are better than one

Microsoft At Home and At Work Newsletter April 25, 2006

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equipoise: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 26, 2006   equipoise \EE-kwuh-poiz; EK-wuh-\, noun: 1. A state of being equally balanced; equilibrium; -- as of moral, political, or social interests or forces. 2. Counterbalance.   What matters is the poetry, and the truest readings of it "are those which are sensitive to the strangeness of Marvell's genius: its delicate equipoise, held between the sensual and the abstract, its refusal to treat experience too tidily, the uncanny tremor of implication that makes the poems' lucid surfaces shimmer with a sense of something undefined and undefinable just beneath." -- James A. Winn, "Tremors of Implication", New York Times, July 9, 2000 I cannot see how the unequal representation which is given to masses on account of wealth becomes the means of preserving the equipoise and the tranquillity of the commonwealth. -- Edmund Burke, "Reflections on The Revolution In France" Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Haunted Houses" Equipoise is equi-, "equal" + poise, from Middle English poisen, "to balance, weigh," from Old French peser, pois-, ultimately from Latin pensare, "to weigh." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for equipoise   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6675832-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

sporadic: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 25, 2006   sporadic \spuh-RAD-ik\, adjective: Occurring singly, or occasionally, or in scattered instances.   Throughout the early years of Kelly's life, out of guilt as much as out of affection, she suspected, her father would make sporadic reappearances, make ever more incompetent attempts to be a good father to her and a good partner to her mother, before leaving again. -- Geoff Nicholson, Female Ruins The land is desperately overpopulated, and the thin soil is so eroded that it can only sustain scattered groups of scrawny cattle or sheep and sporadic crops of maize. -- Anthony Sampson, Mandela: The Authorized Biography In most courses he received a simple Pass, a grade designed for bright students with a history of sporadic attendance or other problems. -- Paul Mariani, The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane Sporadic derives from Medieval Latin sporadicus, scattered, from Greek sporadikos, from sporas, sporad-, scattered like seed. Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for sporadic   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6670908-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

rebarbative: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement      Word of the Day for Monday, April 24, 2006   rebarbative \ree-BAR-buh-tiv\, adjective: Serving or tending to irritate or repel.   Over the past couple of hours a lot of rebarbative, ulcerated and embittered people had been working hard at bedding their resentments down in sensory-deprivation tanks full of alcohol. -- Will Self, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis I still think this true, yet can't help regret the unretrievable hours lavished on so much rebarbative critical prose, convinced that the nearly impenetrable must be profound. -- Michael Dirda, "In which our intrepid columnist visits the Modern Language Association convention and reflects on what he found there", Washington Post, January 28, 2001 Rebarbative comes from French rébarbatif, "stern, surly, grim, forbidding," from Middle French rebarber, "to be repellent," from re- (from the Latin) + barbe, "beard" (from Latin barba). Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for rebarbative   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6665995-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802

agog: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement A Cure for Brain Flab! One brain-building, at-a-glance email a day helps keep unsightly ignorance away. Click here for the KnowledgeNews cure!      Word of the Day for Sunday, April 23, 2006   agog \uh-GOG\, adjective: Full of excitement or interest; in eager desire; eager, keen.   Kobe Bryant left the Minnesota Timberwolves agog after a series of eye-popping moves in a game last week. -- New York Times, February 5, 1998 He was now so interested, quite so privately agog, about it, that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards. -- Henry James, The Ambassadors By the second day he had found his sea-legs, and with hair flying and double-waistcoats flapping, he patrolled the deck agog with excitement, questioning and noting. -- Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Darker Reflections, 1804-1834 Agog derives from Middle French en gogues, "in mirth; lively." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for agog   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors Gamefly FREE game trials! Careerbuilder Launch a new career Rosettastone Language Learning WorldBookStore Biggest sale ever on now FREE shipping too!   What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6663007-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802