Reccommendations for a British 'English' online dictionary?

[slope]

Just done a quick 'search' - and as ever I'm utterly and totally over and subwhelmed by the 'results'

Can anyone recommend anything - for Apple desktop and Apple iPhone?

More than willing to pay for such an application 

EDIT: If it's plain and simple and not cluttered with extraneous imagery

[andyoxon]

Bookmark* this: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/  ?  Used be called AskOxford I think.  Android has a free Oxford Dictionary of English, so perhaps Apple/itunes app thingy might too.

*firefox on my phone has a handy 'add bookmark to homepage', so it's easy to use a web browser page instead of downloading an app, if needed.

[ian]

Dictionaries are built-in on Macs and iDevices too. Look for Dictionary in your apps to open it and select your dictionaries (via the application's preferences). By default, for Brits, it's the Oxford Dictionary of English and Oxford Thesaurus of English. They're both very good. It also includes the Apple dictionary and Wikipedia definitions.

You don't have to use the dictionary application, just select any word and right click and 'look up.' Et voilà. If you use a trackpad, you can configure a three-finger gesture to do it automatically. Just tap and all will be revealed.

[Mrs Pingu]

https://chambers.co.uk/search/

[hubner]

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online is free to anyone with a UK library card.

[slope]

Dictionaries are built-in on Macs and iDevices too. Look for Dictionary in your apps to open it and select your dictionaries (via the application's preferences). By default, for Brits, it's the Oxford Dictionary of English and Oxford Thesaurus of English. They're both very good. It also includes the Apple dictionary and Wikipedia definitions.

You don't have to use the dictionary application, just select any word and right click and 'look up.' Et voilà. If you use a trackpad, you can configure a three-finger gesture to do it automatically. Just tap and all will be revealed.

Duh! I didn't think of my iMac's Dictionary and setting Preferences away from the default Yankiness

And I didn't know about the select word, right click and 'look up' feature either

But the first word I looked up, doesn't show the definition I wanted - and one that appears in my battered old lump of a 1988 Chambers 

weal*3. Same as weel*3.  adv. Scots form of well

(There's a lot of old Scots words used in the Observer's AZED crosswords)

* how does one superscript a number after a word on this forum?

[slope]

https://chambers.co.uk/search/

Sadly the Chambers 21st Century Dictionary doesn't give the further definition in the plain old 1988 Chambers English

https://chambers.co.uk/search/?query=weal&title=21st

[fuaran]

If you want Scots words, try a Scots dictionary. http://www.dsl.ac.uk/

[ian]

OED has

weel | wiːl |
adverb, adjective, & exclamation
Scottish form of well1:[as adverb] : tha wants to rub her reight weel | [as adjective] : weel spoken | [as exclamation] : ‘Weel!’ cried another, ‘thae fa's are just bonnie’.

It's the basic Oxford dictionary, not alas the 21,000 page behemoth (which is a thing of supreme lovely).

Oh, and select the number and press the ^superscript button.

[Kim]

* how does one superscript a number after a word on this forum?

Select the number (or any other text) and use the "sup" button.

Or manually wrap it in [sup][/sup] tags:

[b]weal[sup]3[/sup][/b]

Becomes:

weal³

[slope]

Thank you all for your posts

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page  seems to produce lots of archaic words and definitions, beloved of some arch cryptic crossword setters

Oh, and select the number and press the ^superscript button.

Duh! me again

Select the number (or any other text) and use the "sup" button.

Or manually wrap it in [sup][/sup] tags:

[b]weal[sup]3[/sup][/b]

Becomes:

weal³

Ta very much and duh^!!! me (again endlessly?)

This is quite a nifty forum board interface, innit

[Cudzoziemiec]

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) online is free to anyone with a UK library card.

Not all libraries and not always from home.

[ian]

Well, if you've got a Mac, it's built-in. The three-finder tap on the touchpad to get a definition of the world currently under the cursor is brilliant. Except for Adobe and Microsoft who, of course, break it.

No idea about Windows.