Middle English Dictionary the next several decades. The dictionary was completed in 2001. In 2007, the full dictionary was made freely available and searchable online in an HTML format. Middle English Dictionary The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. "Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available." The project began in the 1920s. The first instalment, "Plan and Bibliography", containing a list of Middle English texts used
Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary 22 October 2009, after 44 years of work, version 1.0 was published as a two-volume set as "HTOED". It consists of two slipcased hardcover volumes, totaling nearly 4,000 pages. The "HTE", released as version 4.2 in September 2014, is freely available online from the University of Glasgow. The work is divided into three main sections: the External World, the Mind, and Society. These are broken down into successively narrower domains. The text eventually discriminates more than 236,000 categories. The second order categories are: Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary (HTOED) is