I've written a little code to connect via the DICT protocol to webster's and retrieve a def for each word in the file "~/vocab_list". It works fine, but it returns multiple definitions for each word, etc. How can I match an entire paragraph rather than just a single line? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::DICT;

#Clear "file"
open (FILE, ">.vocab_file");
        print FILE "";
close FILE;

open (LIST, "vocab_list")
        || die "Missing vocab list?\n";
while ($word = <LIST>)  {
        #Lookup definition...
        $dict = Net::DICT->new();
        $dict->open('dict.org')
                || die "can't connect to dict.org: $!, " . $dict->errn
+o() . "\n";
        @def = $dict->define('!', $word);
        open (FILE, ">>.vocab_file");
                foreach (@def) {
                        print FILE "$$_[3]";
                }
        close FILE;
        $dict->quit;
}
close LIST;

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In reply to string matching/dictionary by Anonymous Monk

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