This is a Firefox extension to facilitate use of the Michigan University Middle English Dictionary website, a dictionary for words used in the English languages used ~1100-1600. It opens a link to a search query for for a given word when you double click it.
You can change the settings in a menu when you right-click your mouse in the browser, changing:
- whether double clicking will open a tab
- whether you want to search just for the headword or the whole entry
- whether you want new tabs to open in the background or not.
- University of Michigan's Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
- Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent's MEMSlib contains many digitizations.
- Harvard's Geoffery Chaucer Website.
- The International John Gower Society's Original Language Editions.
- You might check an old cookbook like The Forme of Cury.
The MED is the best resource for reading old texts but isn't available in any other format. The website is slow to load, slow to use and repeatedly going back and forth between tabs is slow. Double-click → entry is fast.
When you double-click/tap a word in a webpage, your browser highlights that word and temporarily saves it in your browser's local data storage. I can then custom build a link to that word programmatically.