===== The DICT Protocol =====

[[ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2229.txt|RFC 2229]] describes the DICT client/server protocol [[http://www.dict.org/rfc2229.txt|local copy]].

The Dictionary Server Protocol (DICT) is a TCP transaction based query/response protocol that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.