[net.sf-lovers] Excelsior and Dictionaries

tom@LOGICON.ARPA (06/29/84)

From:  Tom Perrine <tom@LOGICON.ARPA>

Where are you people buying your dictionaries these days?  My
"Webster's New World Dictionary" has the defninitiona and derivation of
excelsior:

"excelsior () adj, interj [see EXCEL] always upward --- n.  long thin
wood shavings use for packing."

Not bad for $2.50. Who needs the Oxford-on-a-chip?

Tom Perrine
"engineeers kant spel gud."
{tom@LOGICON.ARPA}