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- Jul 28, 2009
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It means that you checked whatever word it is you were investigating in a dictionary. It would be better as "I checked it in a dictionary ..." but people use "I checked a dictionary".
I didn't know what "loquacious" meant so I checked a dictionary.
I didn't know what "loquacious" meant so I checked a dictionary.
