[397] in Software_Announce
CLI to Oxford English Dictionary in outland locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Wed Feb 28 01:20:43 2001
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 01:20:21 -0500
Message-Id: <200102280620.BAA16505@pickled-herring.mit.edu>
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU
MIT has a subscription to oed.com, but the site uses frames and cookies,
so it's quite difficult to use in a strictly textual fashion. I've
written a script that does this. It's built and cursorily tested for
the platforms used in the clusters. Let me know if you find any
problems with it. You use it like this
athena$ add outland; oed apos*
Possible matches are:
1. aposematic, 2. aposeme
3. aposepalous, 4. aposiopesis
5. aposiopetic, 6. apositic,
7. aposity 8. aposporous
9. aposporously 10. apospory
athena$ oed aposeme
APOSEME
Zool.
Applied to colours, markings, or other attributes serving to warn or
alarm, and thus to repel the attacks of enemies. So aposeme ({sm}ęp{schwa}{shtu}si{lm}m),
an aposematic marking, etc.
1890 POULTON Colours of Animals xvii. 337 Pseudaposematic
colours..deceptively resemble Aposematic colours. 1902 Encycl. Brit.
XXVII. 147 We often see the combination of Cryptic and Sematic methods,
the animal being concealed until disturbed, when it instantly assumes an
Aposematic attitude. 1920 F. A. DIXEY in Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem.
Sci. 1919 202 Adopting Professor Poulton's terminology, we may say
that..one form may possess..the Aposemes belonging to two distinct
models. Ibid. 204 The..most conspicuous of these common aposemes or
danger-signals belong to the under surface. 1940 Nature 3 Aug. 144/2
Aposematic or warning colours [in animals].
athena%
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The funny-looking bits like '{sm}', '{schwa}' represent images that the
webpage uses to indicate punctuation, like diacritics.
Have fun, all you pedants out there!
Alex.
