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+;;; webster-www.el --- Look up a word in WWW Merriam-Webster dictionary
+
+;; Copyright (c) 1997 by Tomasz J. Cholewo <t.cholewo@ieee.org>
+
+;; Created: 1997/03/10 
+;; Version: 1.0
+;; Keywords: comm, hypermedia
+
+;; This file is part of XEmacs.
+
+;; XEmacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+;; under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+;; any later version.
+
+;; XEmacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+;; WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+;; General Public License for more details.
+
+;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+;; along with XEmacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
+;; Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA
+;; 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Synched up with: not in FSF.
+
+;;; Code:
+
+(defvar webster-url "http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/mweb?book=Dictionary&va="
+  "URL to reference for Webster's dictionary.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defun webster-www (arg)
+"Look up a word in the Webster's dictionary at http://www.m-w.com using WWW."
+  (interactive (list
+		(let ((prompt (concat "Look up word in webster ("
+				      (current-word) "): ")))
+		     (read-string prompt))))
+  (require 'url)
+  (require 'w3-forms)
+  (if (equal "" arg) (setq arg (current-word)))
+  (funcall browse-url-browser-function
+	   (concat
+	     webster-url
+	    (w3-form-encode-xwfu arg))))
+
+(provide 'webster-www)
+
+;;; webster-www.el ends here