Chrome extension to look up words on Wordnik.

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An extension for Google Chrome that lets you look up words on Wordnik. 
It's outdated—the manifest version is 1 when it should be 2—but it may work for you if you 
• download the files
• go to chrome://extensions
• check "Developer Mode"
• "Load unpacked extension..."

The .zip file contains the following files:
- manifest.json
- background.html
- wordniklookup.js
- wordnikfavicon.png
- wordnik48.png

background.html

<script src="wordniklookup.js"></script>

manifest.json

{
  "name": "Define Selection on Wordnik",
  "description": "Adds a context menu item to look up selected text on http://wordnik.com/.",
  "version": "0.1",
  "icons": {
     "16": "wordnikfavicon.png",
     "48": "wordnik48.png"},
  "permissions": ["contextMenus","tabs"],
  "background_page": "background.html"
}

wordniklookup.js

// Modified from the sample code that was...
// Copyright (c) 2010 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
// found in the LICENSE file.

// Callback for loading definition in new tab
function defineWord(info, tab) {
  chrome.tabs.create({
  		"url": "http://www.wordnik.com/words/"+info.selectionText
  	});
  
}

// Create context menu item for selections.
var id = chrome.contextMenus.create({"title": "Find definition on Wordnik", "contexts":["selection"],
                                       "onclick": defineWord});