Clue #5

If you are still in the hunt for the solution to this mystery, well done! You are getting oh so close. I hope you are having as much fun trying to solve this mystery as I am creating it. By the way, if you somehow got stuck on clue #2, Multnomah County Library has that dictionary, at least the Woodstock branch does. Road trip! Or just pick up the phone, call the library, and ask for the reference librarian. Ask her or him to look it up in that dictionary, it's what they do (and you might find out a lot of other information, too!). Now, on to today's clue. Take the first word from yesterday's answer, and find out what it's final stage is. Happy hunting! And I forgot to say Happy New Year yesterday, so, yeah.... Happy New Year!