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Defining words from Noah Webster's 1913 dictionary

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Howard Abrams 2022-09-16 15:38:59 -07:00
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@ -694,10 +694,9 @@ According to [[http://endlessparentheses.com/ispell-and-apostrophes.html][Artur
The end result? No misspellings. Isn‘t this nice?
Of course I need a thesaurus, and I'm installing [[https://github.com/SavchenkoValeriy/emacs-powerthesaurus][powerthesaurus]]:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package powerthesaurus
:bind ("M-T" . powerthesaurus-lookup-dwim)
:bind ("s-t" . powerthesaurus-lookup-dwim)
:config
(ha-local-leader :keymaps 'text-mode-map
"s t" '("thesaurus" . powerthesaurus-lookup-dwim)
@ -706,8 +705,8 @@ Of course I need a thesaurus, and I'm installing [[https://github.com/SavchenkoV
"s r" '("related" . powerthesaurus-lookup-related-dwim)
"s S" '("sentence" . powerthesaurus-lookup-sentences-dwim)))
#+end_src
The key-bindings, keystrokes, and key-connections work well with ~M-T~ (notice the Shift), but to jump to specifics, we use a leader. Since the /definitions/ do not work, so let's use abo-abo's [[https://github.com/abo-abo/define-word][define-word]] project:
The key-bindings, keystrokes, and key-connections work well with ~M-T~ (notice the Shift), but to jump to specifics, we use a leader. Since the /definitions/ do not work, so let's use abo-abo's [[https://github.com/abo-abo/define-word][define-word]] project:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(use-package define-word
:config
@ -715,6 +714,28 @@ The key-bindings, keystrokes, and key-connections work well with ~M-T~ (notice t
"s d" '("define this" . define-word-at-point)
"s D" '("define word" . define-word)))
#+end_src
After my enamoring of Noah Webster’s 1913 dictionary (originally due to reading [[https://janusworx.com/blog/thank-god-for-noah/][this essay]] by Mario Jason Braganza who referred to James Somers’ original [[https://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary][2014 blog entry]]), I easily followed the instructions from [[https://github.com/ponychicken/WebsterParser][WebsterParser]], a Github project, with the dictionary:
1. Download [[https://github.com/ponychicken/WebsterParser/releases/latest/download/websters-1913.dictionary.zip][the dictionary]] file.
2. Unzip the archive … have a *Finder* window open to the =.dictionary= file.
3. Open the =Dictionary.app= program.
4. Select the menu entry, *Dictionary –> File –> Open Dictionaries Folder*
5. Drag the downloaded =Websters-1913.dictionary= file into the folder
6. Select the menu entry, *Dictionary –> Dictionary –> Preferences*
7. Check the now last dictionary in the list
If you want to always see Webster’s results by default, go to the Dictionary app’s preferences and drag Webster’s to the top of the list.
Now that this illuminating dictionary is part of my MacOS =Dictionary.app=, I decided to use the [[https://github.com/xuchunyang/osx-dictionary.el][osx-dictionary]] package instead of the =define-word=:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(when (equal system-type 'darwin)
(use-package osx-dictionary
:bind ("s-d" . osx-dictionary-search-word-at-point)
:config
(ha-local-leader :keymaps 'text-mode-map
"s d" '("define this" . osx-dictionary-search-word-at-point)
"s D" '("define word" . osx-dictionary-search-input))))
#+end_src
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