To look up a term in the dictionary, enter it in the text input box above and click on the "look it up" button. If you don't know how to do this, refer to the instructions for the particular browser you are using.
You should enter the term as you would normally expect to see it written, though case and punctuation (spaces, hyphens, etc.) are generally not significant. There is no particular search syntax, just enter a word or phrase and if in doubt enter single words and the best match will be returned, ignoring case.
There is no special syntax for entering your search string - don't try to use quotaion marks ("), Boolean operators (+ or -), they won't work.
A few entries differ from each other only in case or punctuation so if you just enter lower case and no punctuation you may get one or two more hits, never less, than if you enter the term exactly as it appears in the entry.