ONLINE DICTIONARIES, THESAURI, ENCYCLOPEDIAS

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Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster's WWWebster Dictionary and Thesaurus. Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate ® Dictionary, Tenth Edition. Linked with permission from Merriam-Webster, Inc.
• Another (older and not as slick, but unabridged) interactive Webster's Dictionary
  
• Collections of Online Dictionaries of All Kinds
  
  1. YourDictionary.com
     
  2. TRAVLANG Dictionaries, etc. for Travelers

• Rhyming Dictionary
  
• Basic Dictionary of Sign Language Terms
  
• Christian Classics: Ethereal Library (bible dictionaries, etc.)
  
• Acronym and Abbreviation Server
  

Quotations

• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 1901 version, with hyperlinks

Thesauri

• An interactive Roget's Thesaurus, maintained at University of Chicago
  
• WORD-NET: a new kind of Thesaurus
  

Encyclopedias

• Encyclopedia Britannica This is now a phenomenal resource. Connections are provided for the World Wide Web as well as to articles within the Britannica.
  
• Free Internet Encyclopedia, relies on information found on internet sites--a work in perpetual progress.
  

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