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I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated i
by wodow 12y ago
I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and
noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time
the materials of a dictionary. --Johnson. [0]
To use the dictionary files he has hosted on S3 [1] on Linux, GoldenDict [2] works well.
[0] Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/jsomers/dictionary.zip https://s3.amazonaws.com/jsomers/dictionary.zip
[2] http://goldendict.org/ http://goldendict.org/
- privong 12y agoThe "dict" program [0] (with the default server) also pulls definitions from 1913 Webster (via The Collaborative International Dictionary of English [1]). It's my go-to dictionary, due to the ease of accessibility via the command line. [0] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/dict/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_International_Dictionary_of_English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_International_Di...
- mcguire 12y agoCourtesy of Wikipedia, you can get the 1913 Webster's itself, as well, from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/dicts-dictd/001/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/xdxf/files/dicts-dictd/001/ The file is dictd01_dict-web1913-1.4-pre.tar.gz.