Words you can not look up for free! Webster.com, Only paying customers get those words!

http://www.m-w.com/ is the official site of the Webster dictionary company, and I use it quite often. While the overwhelmingly majority of words can be found there, freely, there are a few it randomly has selected not to give you less you pay for them.

If you look up lor then it says

I can't seem to find that word defined anywhere else, trying two other online dictionaries. A bit irritating really.

Other words it gives me that message at are gallian and uh... oh. I had a long list of them once somewhere... don't think I ever got around to posting them. I just looked up lor while reading the 5th Harry Potter novel... one of those British words I suppose. In the unofficial American version of the books there isn't any of this polite sophisticated British dialogue, but simplier dude language.

"Whatzup fool! Heard Lord V... I mean, you know who, tried to do you in.. again!"
"Dude! Its like, everyone knows he is the badess ass badass ever, and they want him gone, but no one will slip over a machine gun for me to take care of him, although you know he is always going to keep coming after me. I mean, give a fella a chance already!"

I screwed that joke up... My other Harry Potter rant was funny since it featured an exploding testicals curse. Oh well.

I saw the word in Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix, and looked it up on the net after webster's refused to define it for me.
http://www.paralumun.com/ornithomancy.htm

So, depending on how the birds fly, so went the ways of the world. How odd. Perhaps they could predict the annual plagues since birds continously reintroduce many things into the human populace.

You know its a sad day when a man can't look up the word umpty in the dictionary. Society is surely doomed...

I looked up umpteenth and that definition led me to the word umpty.

Whats this? Instead of one of a million, its only one of half a million? How odd.

This sucks though. It won't tell me what CVS means. I'll have to google to find out.

I guess we can't get jiggy with them then. Seriously, what the hell does that mean? And why do I feel so old when people 5 years younger than me use it?

MTV just makes up words to get you fools to talk stupid! Yeah, you, with the baggy pants on... do they still do that, or did people come to their senses and snap out of it? Its like some subliminal messages are sent into people, getting them to do the stupidest things just to show they can, but they wear off after awhile and it takes awhile before the brains have mellow enough for the next message of stupidity to take hold.

"Oh no! All of us evil old white guys in suits coorporate conspiracy stereotypes, invested heavily in baggy pants assuming that the obesity problem would mean a massive increase in sales! But for some strange reason, no matter how fat we tell people everyone else is, and how they should feel fine getting fat to, and us even sticking fat causing calories into every other health snack just to mess with their heads, we still don't have enough fat people to buy all of these. I know! We'll get Captain Subliminal to put a message into the heads of the most retarded people out there, and tell them that wearing baggy pants is cool!"

I'm pretty sure thats how it happened. Makes sense doesn't it?

They are preventing me from fully understanding modern American slang! I'm too old to be cool! I don't understand what these kids are saying... yeah, whatever. Everything is lame these days. GiJoe used to be animated, and now they are using lame 3D graphics that move in slow motion, and talk as though all the characters are mentally retarded.

At least now they have more evil robots to shoot at. Nothing lamer than both sides shooting at one another constantly, and no one ever getting hit because of the rules of lame American television. They'd just jump out of the vehicals right before a missle or laser blew them up, and even if they were going a hundred miles per hour, they'd land on their feet and still be well enough to exchange lame dialogue before walking away.

Now thats fap! Actually, I'm not sure if it is since I have no idea what the word means. I heard it used by Clango, the robot over at Diesel Sweeties whose ex-porn star girlfriend cheated on him so he is hanging out with someone else now apparently. Oh what twisted bizare love triangles they must weave ... uh... I got to go poop now... *sigh* someone tell me what fap means please.

And do they just make up words at random, or does someone look through the dictionary already like a rogue lexicographer looking to reintroduce words to the general public?

Reading the unique bunny comic over at frozen reality and I came across that word. Alas, the dictionary people won't let me know what it means less I pay them a fee. Bastards....

We should send some stealth pirate ninjas to get them, and pirate a copy of their online dictionary ...

If you didn't understand that referance you haven't read as many of the comics as I have just been pouring through. They did a guest comic over at a little-gamers today.

The hyper dictionary people gave me a diffination.

So, its a bird. One that tries to swallows the sea, stupidly, then spits out the salt all day. Or perhaps that gives its poop more texture and adds corrosive salt damage to the cars they target.

Other sites only list hari-kari which is a totally differant word... something to do with suicide. I guess it is pretty frustrating when you can't find a simple word like kari, but that is rather overboard. Rather hairy situation.... nevermind. Lame jokes this early in the morning... civilization is surely doomed.

Kari is Swahili for a dangerous animal with an unpredictable temperment according to the Appleseeds manga translation I'm reading. It was published way back in 1985.

I guess swahili words don't enter the dictionary too often. Webster's dictionary might know, but they won't tell you without you paying to sign up. Then again, perhaps thats just a game of theirs. Whenever there is a word you enter that they don't know the definition of, they just tell you that "Sure we know. But you have to sign up to find out from us," when they really mean is "we don't know that, but we do know no one is going to pay to use our survice, so we're just covering our own incompentance." Yep. I got that little conspiracy figured out.

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Main Entry: mucormycosis
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If you swallow too much salt water, this stuff develops inside you, and kills you 80% of the time. I looked it up on Webster, and got the message they don't let people know important things like that for free. I read about it http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4210125.stm

If the tsunami didn't kill you, the mucormycosis will. With a name that sinister, you know its well above standard level evil. I think you can get it just by having it wash into open wounds even. I didn't bother doing much more than skimming over that artical.

Hmm...

Is there a conspiracy?
Fact: Mucormycosis is pure evil.
Fact: Making people pay to look up certain words as Websters does is rather evil.

Fact: The tsunami killed vast numbers of people. It was called an act of God.
Fact: Even someone patient enough to put up with all the human bullshit for thousands of years, can still loose his temper when faced with crap like this.

God: "WTF? I have to pay to look up certain words in an online dictionary? Screw this! This is the last straw. I'm going to drown all these suckers and start over again."
Jesus: "Dad! You promised not to. Remember the rainbow?"
God: "What?"
Jesus: "Noah, and the big boat with all the animals in it."
God: "Look son, I'm really old. What are you... oh, that thing. Fine. I wouldn't drown all of them... I'll just make a huge wave and kill off 100 thousand or so. That'll show them to quit screwing around down there. Hey Satan, get in here."
Satan: "What is it?"
God: "Get some evil plague or something... and dump it out on people."
Satan: "How about the mucormycosis."
God: "Whoa! With a name that wicked sounding, that'll surely teach them a lesson."

Satan lives in heaven now, since the worse possible hell for most people is to stick them in a room full of super Christians who can't stop talking about Jesus every 5 seconds, and why they are way holier than everyone else.

Typical American kid: "You think I'm afraid of this hell garbage? I went to an American public school! Bring it on! Constant torture and fire ain't going to do nothing to me!"
Satan: "Actually we are going to lock you into a room with hyper Christians who never stop talking, and you will be unable to move or speak, or ignore them. Its hell for you, and heaven for them, since there is nothing they enjoy doing more than preaching to heathens with their holier than thou attitude."
"NO!!!!!!!!!!"

Can't even look up a word like ridder.

"Why would you need to look that up? Its one that rides isn't it?
Wrong! According to http://dict.die.net/ridder/

See that? They can quote the 1913 Webster's dictionary, but if we want a more modern definition and perhaps spelling we have to pay for it.
"Yes, but the Wester people say you get more than a million words!"
Bah! We all know that no one ever uses a million words in their lifetime, no matter how much they try to impress people. I'm certain there are no more than 20 thousand words total in the common dictionary, and most people don't even use 1/4 of those, ever. In fact, most get by on just a few hundred, or around here in caveman redneck territory, a single grunt noise can be used to handle all communication.
"What about their free trail? You could use that."
Bah. It only last a week probably, or maybe even less. How many words will I need to look up in that time that is only in their private collection? I'll save up all the words I don't know, then look them up all at once one day perhaps. That'll teach them!
"Teach them what? That you can be an even bigger dumbass than them?"
Bah... whatever.

I shall rid the world of the word ridder, before riding off to see the carnival rides. Rid ride rid ride rid ride... one who rids or one who rides?

I can look up rider on the Webster side, and it tells me a rider is one who rides.

So a ridder rids and a rider rides? Is there no end to this madness?

Yeah, that one will keep me up at night.

Just looked it up via google at another site dedicated to it. Apparently you stop breathing at times during your sleep. I'm thinking I'm getting less oxygen that my body needs, thus the cause of anxiety.

They define regular apnea freely, just not sleep apnea. Notice they defined it with words most wouldn't know.

Transient cessation of respiration, or was we common folk like to say, random stopping of breathing. You see? Its so simple. Stop trying to impress people using all those big words. I know you are a dictionary company, and thus your whole industry is based on big words people don't know, otherwise they wouldn't need to ever look things up, but there is no need to show off.

Apparently inflagrante is latin for something, taught to people in college so they can cover up the fact that threw away thousands of dollars and spent years memorizing useless outdated nonsense, most of which was never correct to begin with, just to get a piece of paper to convince all the fools they are smarter than others.

"Yah! I went to college and learned some big words to impress my friends."

Seriously. Thats why doctors and lawyers use latin names for everything, just to sound more important. I had a rant about that years ago at my old forum.

I went to college and all I got was this lousy piece of paper, and a slightly enlarged vocabulary. Bah...

Oh, those cruel bastards! Misbegotten amalgam child of mad societies across the globe, constantly evolving ever into something stranger, the English vocabulary is filled with many mysteries. Hmm... I could look up things in a thesaurus and made that sound more sophisticated.. but alas, as I sit here in my underwear in a most uncomfortable chair staring at my computer screen through cheap Walmart plastic frame glasses, I realize I honestly don't care to bother. I'm not here to impress people, which is good, because this forum only gets one visiter every 4 months on average.

Anyway, they have their subtle phallic(thats a fancy word meaning penis) definition complete with picture for the word banana, then they list other words that have banana in them.. uh... that have hmm... expression? What do you call a word that is more than one word? Not words, I mean... oh the heck with it.