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+The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based
+query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary
+definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
+
+RFC 2229 describes the DICT client/server protocol.
+
+dict(1) is a client which can access DICT servers from the
+command line.
+
+http://www.dict.org/
+
+
+--
+Josh Gilliam josh@quick.net