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Online dictionaries.
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   DictSearch
Provides multiple search capability in language and specialty (medical, computing) dictionaries throughout the Net. Includes monolingual and bilingual searches of most European and some Asian languages.
URL: http://www.ctv.es/USERS/alberfon/dicsear1.htm
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   Oran's Dictionary of the Law
Oran's Legal Dictionary defines and illustrates more than 6,000 technical terms and hundreds of Latin, Old French and Old English words used in legal and business documents.
URL: http://www.wld.com/conbus/orans/Welcome.asp
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   New Oxford Dictionary of English
The New Oxford Dictionary of English is available online; the site also features a "foreign word of the day," "word of the day," and "quote of the day."
URL: http://ukdb.web.aol.com/oup/
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   ArtLex: A dictionary of visual art
ArtLex includes "more than 2,800 terms, along with numerous illustrations, pronunciation notes, great quotations, and links to other resources on the Web."
URL: http://home.ncia.com/~slarsson/sdj99/sdj06w3.html
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   A Web of Online Dictionaries
Multilingual dictionaries for every language imaginable, thesauri, grammars, language guessers, linguistics.
URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
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   Rhyming Dictionary
Don't strain your brain looking for a word that rhymes. The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary makes it almost effortless with a drop-down menu.
URL: http://www.rhymezone.com/
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   Strange and Unusual Dictionaries [all consonant words] [all vowel words]
For the curious; dictionaries of one-letter words, words with only consonants, and words with only vowels. Also links to a few other odd dictionaries lurking about the Web...
URL: http://www.blueray.com/dictionary
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   The Acronym Finder
The Acronym Finder (AF) is a searchable database of over 42,000 acronyms and their meanings. It covers common acronyms and computer, government, telecommunications, Department of Defense (DoD), and military acronyms.
URL: http://www.mtnds.com/af
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   Dictionary Resources
Trying to find the right word but don't know exactly where to look? If the Web of On-line Dictionaries doesn't help, the word may not have been created yet. It's that extensive: links to more than 500 dictionaries in 140-plus different languages.
URL: http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
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   Oxford English Dictionary: Word of the Day
Word roots, spellings, prnunciation and timelines.
URL: http://www.oed.com/cgi/display/wotd
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   The DICT Development Group
simultaneously search several dictionaries for word definitions including Websters, Jargon File, and several other dictionary databases.
URL: http://www.dict.org/
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   WordNet - a Lexical Database for English
WordNet® is an on-line lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.
URL: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/
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   The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Bartleby's latest offering is the Fourth Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary. The online dictionary contains over 90,000 entries, 70,000 audio word pronunciations (.wav format), 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes, and word-root appendixes.
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/61/
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   ¬Newbury House Online Dictionary
Contains over 40,000 entries and is based on the best selling Newbury House Dictionary of American English.
URL: http://nhd.heinle.com/
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   The Glossarist
I have a spider that roams the internet looking for glossaries. When found these are all included in the searchable database. Almost any glossary can be included in the Glossarist.
URL: http://www.glossarist.com/
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   Word Assault
Includes lookup in Webster's 1913 unabridged dictionary.
URL: http://www.wordassault.com/
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   Webster Dictionary Pictures
Pictures from Webster's dictionary in color.
URL: http://webster.com/mw/art/
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   FreeDict [Horst Eyermann]
FreeDict - for free bilingual dictionaries Languages supported: Africaans, Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Nederlands (Dutch) Portuguese, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Swedish, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh
URL: http://www.freedict.de/

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