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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (6576)9/30/1999 2:54:00 PM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 769667
 
Hypertext Webster Gateway: "troglodyte"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Troglodyte \Trog"lo*dyte\, n. [L. troglodytae, pl., Gr. ? one who creeps into holes; ? a hole, cavern (fr. ? to gnaw) + ? enter: cf. F. troglodyte.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of any savage race that dwells in caves, instead of constructing dwellings; a cave dweller. Most of the primitive races of man were troglodytes.
In the troglodytes' country there is a lake, for the hurtful water it beareth called the ''mad lake.'' --Holland.

2. (Zo["o]l.) An anthropoid ape, as the chimpanzee.

3. (Zo["o]l.) The wren.