On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:00:07 -0600 Ian Monroe ian.monroe@gmail.com wrote:
Personally, I sometimes write a new definition if I have a spark of inspiration, otherwise I modify the definitions that make sense to me from Wordnet (I avoid Webster 1913 like the plague generally).
Wordnet is an awful source, that lumps together multiple words as though they had identical meanings, when there truly are few words that have an identical meaning to another word. Anyway, the definitions it uses are severely flawed anyway and are no where near as good as authoritative sources like Webster and OED. The definitions in Wordnet are more appropriate to a desk reference for middle school students than an authoritative dictionary.
Cheers,
Chris Hagar