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+.\" mate-dictionary.1 - a online dictionary client
+.\" Copyright 2005 Emmanuele Bassi
+.\" Copyright 2001 Jochen Voss
+.TH mate-dictionary 1 "Jan 2 2005" "mate-utils 2.13.4"
+.SH NAME
+mate-dictionary \- Look up words on dictionaries
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.nf
+.BI mate-dictionary
+.br
+.BI mate-dictionary " [options]"
+.fi
+.sp
+or select
+.B Dictionary
+from the
+.B Accessories
+submenu of the Applications menu.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B MATE Dictionary
+provides dictionary definitions of words, using a dictionary source.
+
+For full documentation see the
+.B MATE Dictionary
+online help.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.BI \-\-look\-up " word"
+Looks up the specified word using the pre-defined dictionary source.
+.TP
+.BI \-s " source\fR or " \-\-source " source"
+Uses the specified source for looking up words. This does not affect the
+global settings.
+.TP
+.BR \-l " or " \-\-list\-sources
+Lists all the sources available.
+.TP
+.BR \-n " or " \-\-no\-window
+Using this switch with the \-\-look\-up will print the definitions found
+on the console without launching the GUI.
+.TP
+.B \-\-help
+Display help information.
+.SH CONFIGURATION
+All the configuration is handled using MateConf.
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B MATE Dictionary
+was originally written by Spiros Papadimitriou (<[email protected]>), Mike
+Hughes (<[email protected]>) and Bradford Hovinen (<[email protected]>).
+
+Emmanuele Bassi (<[email protected]>) rewrote it from scratch.
+
+This manual page was originally written by Jochen Voss
+
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR dict (1),
+.BR dictd (8),
+.BR http://www.dict.org/ ,
+.B RFC 2229