    # File lib/wordnet/lexicon.rb, line 249
                    def storeSynset( synset )
                            strippedOffset = nil
                            pos = nil

                            # Start a transaction
                            @env.begin( BDB::TXN_COMMIT, @dataDb ) do |txn,datadb|

                                    # If this is a new synset, generate an offset for it
                                    if synset.offset == 1
                                            synset.offset =
                                                    (datadb['offsetcount'] = datadb['offsetcount'].to_i + 1)
                                    end

                                    # Write the data entry
                                    datadb[ synset.key ] = synset.serialize

                                    # Write the index entries
                                    txn.begin( BDB::TXN_COMMIT, @indexDb ) do |txn,indexdb|

                                            # Make word/part-of-speech pairs from the words in the synset
                                            synset.words.collect {|word| word + "%" + pos }.each {|word|

                                                    # If the index already has this word, but not this
                                                    # synset, add it
                                                    if indexdb.key?( word )
                                                            indexdb[ word ] << SubDelim << synset.offset unless
                                                                    indexdb[ word ].include?( synset.offset )
                                                    else
                                                            indexdb[ word ] = synset.offset
                                                    end
                                            }
                                    end # transaction on @indexDb
                            end # transaction on @dataDB

                            return synset.offset
                    end