Webster’s 1913 Dictionary for macOS

A up to the moment-change to the CSS styling of dictionary results for the Webster’s 1913 English Dictionary.

This is by no plan a “most attractive” styling but it completely feels extraordinary extra aligned with the comfort of the dictionary than old stylings. It is precise CSS — please fork this sucker and originate it even prettier using mystical CSS selectors.

Set up

To install on macOS:

• Download and unzip the websters-1913.dictionary.zip file
• Birth Dictionary.app
• File > Birth Dictionaries Folder
• Reproduction the unzipped webster-1913.dictionary file into the dictionaries folder (default field: ~/Library/Dictionaries)
• Quit and re-start Dictionary.app
• Dictionary > Preferences
• Webster’s 1913 must be on the bottom of your sources listing
• Web out it!

Background

Dictionary madness kicked off by James Somers support in 2014:

A e book the prevent might possibly likely enter “sport” and prove with “a diversion of the field” — here’s genuinely the reverse of what I’d identified a dictionary to be. This is a e book that transmutes unpleasant phrases into language that’s finer and extra gleaming and most steadily extra rare. No marvel McPhee wrote with it by his facet. No marvel he regarded up phrases he knew, versus phrases he didn’t, in a ratio of “on the least ninety-9 to one.”

Basically based off the output of @ponychicken’s parsing of the distinctive dictionary files.