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DICTIONARIES AND RELATED REFERENCE BOOKS

1 Look Dictionaries A list of well over 200 online dictionaries and glossaries, some dealing with pretty esoteric subject matter castles, cooking and oncology. http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml

Arabic - would you consider adding a link to our own Arabic translation tool (http://www.lingo24.com/contextrans.html) and Arabic phrase finder (http://www.lingo24.com/paraphrase-tool.html). We also have a collection of the best translation tools on the internet (http://www.lingo24.com/free-translation-online.html), as well as a number of other language resources, such as articles (http://www.lingo24.com/articles/Language_Light-_-3.html), a career guide for linguists (http://www.lingo24.com/careerguide.html) and many other interesting links.

Bartleby's at http://www.bartleby.com/index.html is quickly becoming the repository of many of the most important writing and reference texts printed in the English language

Bartlett's quotations http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable

British/American dictionary http://www.peak.org/~jeremy/dictionary/dict.html

Bucknell http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction3.html http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/grammars.html

Collegiate Dictionary http://www.m-w.com/

Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) site http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dare/dare.html

Dictionary of ancient and modern names from around the world, http://www.fairacre.demon.co.uk/

English to Latin Dictionary http://cawley.archives.nd.edu/cgi-bin/lookdown.pl

Folkies dictionary http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/~spencer/FF/

Free, web-based language translation . http://www.freetranslation.com/

iTools (Internet Tools) is a great resource. You'll find a dictionary, thesaurus, foreign language translator, and more by following the "Research-It" link. http://www.itools.com

Internet language dictionary http://www.netlingo.com

List of Dictionaries http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries_noframes.html

Oxford English Dictionary "word of the day" subscription site but daily words are free www.oed.com/wordofday.htm

The Phobia List http://www.phobialist.com/

Plumb Design Visual Thesaurus Interactive thesaurus, unique interface. If you have a java-enabled browser, you have to try this! http://www.plumbdesign.com/thesaurus/

A Prisoner’s Dictionary-Prison Slang http://dictionary.prisonwall.org/

Roget's Thesarus http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html

RhymeZone-Rhyming Dictionary http://www.rhymezone.com/

Semantic Rhyming Dictionary http://www..link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html

SharpWriter http://www.sharpwriter.com

Slang:

Slanguage http://www.slanguage.com/

commonly used in old detective and gangster type movies http://www.miskatonic.org/slang.html
Prisoners dictionary http://dictionary.prisonwall.org/
The Online Slang Dictionary http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wrader/slang/

Dictionary of Sound-Alike Words http://www.business-words.com/dictionary/index.html

Word Central New site by Merriam-Webster. Supposedly for young people, http://www.wordcentral.com/ - -

http://www.m-w.com/ (the adult equivalent)