[Orgmode] Preventing line breaks in (HTML) published description lists

[Paul Michael Reilly]

I added a plain list to my file:

...
  - term1 :: this means something
  - term2 :: this means something else
  - term3 :: and something different still
...

fully expecting the term and the description rendered in HTML to be on 
the same line as is shown in the Latex published Org Mode manual.  But 
the items were rendered as:

...
  term1
      this means something
  term2
      this means something else
  term3
      and something different still
...

I suspect this might be an HTML artifact, nevertheless, how would I 
convince org-mode to arrange for the HTML rendering to attempt to keep 
the terms and descriptions on the same line?  An example or reference 
would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

-pmr