I was let down by the "app-dicts/edictionary-2.2" package for Gentoo. It is a Perl script that just does *not* work. I was getting tired of having to use a browser for simple dictionary lookups, so I wrote two Bash functions that let me define or match words via the command line and curl.
Add to your ~/.bashrc
function define {
curl -# dict://dict.org/d:$1|tail -n +3|head -n -2|more
}
function match {
curl -# dict://dict.org/m:$1|tail -n +3|head -n -2|more
}
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