Fetch a word definition from dictionary.com. Cheat by using their WAP interface. (Note: I imagine this has probably been done many times before) 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::Simple qw(get);
use HTML::Parser;

my($word) = shift() || die("Usage: $0 <word>\n");

my($html) = get('http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?config=hdml
+&term=' . $word) || die("get() '$word' failed: $@");

HTML::Parser->new(text_h => [ sub { foreach (shift()) { print() if (/\
+w/); } }, 'dtext' ])->parse($html);

print("\n");

exit();

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