A work in progress update of the Webster's 1913 Dictionary for macOS using Claude Code
Here is cmod's original work:
Here is the progress so far:
- download the .dictionary folder
- place it in your dictionaries folder (accessed through Dictionary app)
- restart Dictionary app
Dictionary madness kicked off by James Somers back in 2014:
A book where you can enter “sport” and end up with “a diversion of the field” — this is in fact the opposite of what I’d known a dictionary to be. This is a book that transmutes plain words into language that’s finer and more vivid and sometimes more rare. No wonder McPhee wrote with it by his side. No wonder he looked up words he knew, versus words he didn’t, in a ratio of “at least ninety-nine to one.”
Based off the output of @ponychicken's parsing of the original dictionary files.