On Mar 31, 2002 at 19:21, Nikhil Joshi wrote:

>Has anyone come across an util which gives you meaning of a word?

In .bashrc:

spell() { grep -i $* /usr/dict/words }
dict() { lynx http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=$* }

(not by me)

Then at the prompt you can type:

spell ^agn
dict agnostic

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