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Excerpts from mail: (01-Jul-99) Re: dict.el by Tibor Simko
>>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
LMI> I was getting tired up looking things up in a dead-wood
LMI> dictionary [...] I've put the results at [...] `dict.el'
Tibor> Note that there is already a `dict.el', an "Emacs interface to the
Tibor> Online Dictionary Database at dict.org", written by Eric Mardsen [1].

There's also another `dict.el' written by Alexander Vorobiev
<sparrow@sparrow.diamant.ru> which is also an Emacs frontend for dict.org.