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Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Alpha Dictionary -- Search 992 Online English Dictionaries at Once!
AskOxford.com -- for language related information and resources.
Bartleby.com -- Great books online (Reference, verse, fiction, non-fiction).
Britannica.com On-line --
BuzzWhack -- Dedicated to de-mystifying buzzwords.
Canadian Encyclopedia -- made available by Historica, a charitable foundation.
Encyclopedia.com-- a commercial on-line encyclopedia with brief information and per-pay links to fuller information and graphics.
Information Please Almanac -- Biography, sports, arts and entertainment, business, society, history, etc.
Latin Dictionary -- from Lex Scripta.
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology -- online companion to the 10th Edition of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
OneLook Dictionaries -- Dictionary word count = 5,988,903 words in 964 dictionaries indexed.
Oxford English Dictionary - The premiere dictionary of English based on historical principles. Provides the origins of words and their use from the time of Chaucer to the present.
Oxford Reference Online contains 100 dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy -- A Publication of: The Metaphysics Research Lab Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University.
TechEncyclopedia -- more than 20,000 Information Technology terms.
YourDictionary.Com -- dictionaries and glossaries of specialized words in the English language.

SLANG

On-line Slang Dictionary -- an online collaborative dictionary.
SlangSite.com -- slang, webspeak, made up words, and colloquialisms.
Slang terms -- English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom.Created 2.2.2000 /rev 02.04.2009 by P.F. McIntyre. Revised 06.06.2011 by L.F. Larkin.

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