First post on perl monks, just signed up (great site)

I think what you might be looking for is this,

It's in the public domain
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Moby/
word lists, thesaurus etc

Moby Hyphenator 
185,000 entries fully hyphenated
mhyph.tar.Z [980kB]

Moby Language 
Word lists in five of the world's great languages
mlang.tar.Z [2.3MB]

Moby Part-of-Speech 
230,000 entries fully described by part(s) of speech, listed in priori
+ty order
mpos.tar.Z [1.2MB]

Moby Pronunciator 
175,000 entries fully International Phonetic Alphabet coded
mpron.tar.Z [3.1MB]

Moby Shakespeare 
The complete unabridged works of Shakespeare
mshak.tar.Z [2.3MB]

Moby Thesaurus 
30,000 root words, 2.5 million synonyms and related words
mthes.tar.Z [12MB]

Moby Words 
610,000+ words and phrases. The largest word list in the world
[download]

The Cheshire Cat (...is back)