NP: Dictionary Pointer

[Peter Petto]

(Unless their doing something with cookies now) the Cleveland Public 
Library appears to be providing an open gateway to the OED:

    http://ezp2.cpl.org:2059/

Also, can anyone tell me the meaning of the word "snappeur" ?  (It appeared 
today in the Wordsmith word-of-the-day definition.):

>choleric (KOHL-uhr-ik) adjective
>
>    Easily irritated or angered: hot-tempered.
>
>[Middle English colerik, from Latin cholericus, from Greek cholerikos.]
>
>    "Continually throwing off cuttings from its mown prose, the novel delights
>    in word-play. Umeed is, at times, an angry photographer, `a choleric
>    snappeur,' who resents playing second fiddle to the brilliant spectacle,
>    and final demise, of Ormus and Vina: `second-fiddling while Rome burns'."
>    James Wood, Books: Review: The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie,
>    The Guardian (London, UK), Apr 3, 1999.