english thesaurus and dictionary

[Fredrik Lundh]

Bob Roberts wrote:

> I want to incorporate an english thesaurus and dictionary into my
> application.  Does anybody know of freely available thesauri and
> dictionaries that I could use?

this might be useful:

http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/

    "Moby Thesaurus: 30,000 root words, 2.5 million
    synonyms and related words"

    "Moby Words: 610,000+ words and phrases. The
    largest word list in the world"

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