Wanted: Name of a lightweight English dictionary package
Does anyone know of a lightweight dictionary for English words? I want something that does not require network access, and ideally has a command line interface. That way I can highlight some words in an application such as my web browser, and hit a desktop shortcut key bound to "xterm -e <dictionary_app> `xclip -o`" and immediately see the word's definition.
Last edited by likelightweight (2010-04-21 06:49:19)
The plan9port package includes a program called dict, along with information about where to obtain dictionaries which are properly formatted for it.
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