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> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 19:50:39 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > That only works on Posix systems.  We should have a DICT client 
> > implemented in Emacs Lisp, perhaps based on dictionary.el.
> 
> What is missing in dictionary.el?

Maybe nothing, I don't know.  I didn't yet have enough time to take a
good look at it.