Okay, so I've finally gotten the format to work, but I need a little help getting the desired layout I want. Here is my current format: 
format OUTPUT = 
@<<<<<<<<<<<    @<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
$word           $definition
.

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Very simple, but it doesn't do exactly what I am looking to do. As you can probably tell, it's a simple word/definition output. The problem is that the definition is often longer than the allocated space and therefore gets truncated.

I'm looking for a way to get output that will continue the definition onto the next line. Sort of a multi-line definition (if needed) for each word. 
word1             definition11111111111111111111111111111111
                  111111111111111111111
word2             definition22222222222222222222222222222222
                  222222222222222222222

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Any suggestions? -Eric

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