Although in the age of the Internet we have access to the magnificent
Middle English Compendium hosted by the University of Michigan, few
students of Middle English would question the usefulness of a desktop
copy for day-to-day reference. There has been no handy, reliable edition
of such a dictionary for many years. The 1888 edition of Mayhew and
Skeat's Concise Dictionary of Middle English can sometimes be found in
antiquarian bookshops, but it is scarce, and available copies vary in
both condition and cost. This new edition of Mayhew and Skeat has been
revised and completely reset for the modern reader. It offers in a
concise form more than 11,000 headwords with source references, cross
references, and etymologies.