Chris' Ramblings
Is ‘box’ not a word?

Somebody please tell me what I am missing??? I can’t find the word ‘box’ in any of the dictionary files on my Mac.

chris@The-Book dict $ pwd
/usr/share/dict
chris@The-Book dict $ ls -l
total 2176
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      516 Jun 22  2009 README
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel      706 Jun 22  2009 connectives
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel     8640 Jun 22  2009 propernames
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  2486813 Jun 22  2009 web2
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1012730 Jun 22  2009 web2a
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel        4 Aug 28  2009 words -> web2
chris@The-Book dict $ grep ^box$ *
chris@The-Book dict $ 
Umm … 300k+ words … and no ‘box’?