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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.

WWW: http://www.dict.org/

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Josh Gilliam			josh@quick.net