ONLINE DICTIONARIES, THESAURI, ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Other Guides to Reference Sources

• Accurate Eye, from Australia, so you'd better have a fast connection, but this is an extensive, easy to use resource.
  

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. Online Dictionaries, from Bucknell
     
  2. Electronically Available Dictionaries and Corpora, from Brown University
     
  3. TRAVLANG Dictionaries, etc. for Travelers

• University of Indiana Biotech Dictionary
  
• Rhyming Dictionary
  
• Basic Dictionary of Sign Language Terms
  
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  
• Ambrose Bierce's Devil's Dictionary -- devilishly good fun
  
• 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
  
• Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary Type in the definition and get a list of words that (sometimes) fit.

Encyclopedias

• Biography, over 15,000 entries, which vary considerably in depth.
  
• Free Internet Encyclopedia, relies on information found on internet sites--a work in perpetual progress.
  
• Internet Encyclopedia, not a comprehensive research tool, this relies on a hybrid of the printed encyclopedia and internet directories.
  
• The Best of Kidopedia, another work in progress --written for children and teenagers by children and teenagers from around the world.
  
• Britannica Online, a smattering of free info, this would cost $175/year to subscribe to.

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