My dictionary icon has disappeared and in its place is an icon of paper and pencils                sheets of paper and pencils that do nothing

My dictionary icon is gone and in its place is an icon with two sheets of paper and pencils.  It does nothing.  When I look at the apps on my computer it's also gone and the paper and pencils icon is there also and does nothing.

Long shot: The only icon I know of that resembles what you are describing is the App Store icon. I see you're on 10.5.x Did you recently update to 10.6.6 or 7? Of course, this doesn't explain why you don't find Dictionary in Applications or why it's missing in the Dock. And, doesn't explain "two sheets of paper."
Otherwise, no idea what that icon is or what it's doing there.
If you open About this Mac from the Apple menu>Applications, do you find it there? What you may have to do is use Pacifist to reinstall just that app. Read this on using:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/12278861?messageID=12278861#12278861

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