Command-line dictionary

It just parse the website wordnetweb and extract the meaning of the word/phrase given. You need lynx to run this script successfully.

#!/bin/bash

lynx -dump "http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=$1" | awk '/\(lexical\) relations/ {flag=1; next;} /WordNet home page/ {flag=0;}{if (flag == 1) print;}' | grep --color -100 -E "(Verb|Adjective|Noun|Adverb|\(|\)|\[|\])"

exit 0

References:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=371482
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn