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Bartleby.com
Online literature, verse, and reference books with complete electronic versions of the Columbia Encyclopedia; The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; and The American Heritage Book of English Usage.

Dictionary.com
A reference directory with an online dictionary and Roget's Thesaurus.

MEDLINEplus: Dictionaries
Spellings and definitions of medical terms.

Merriam-Webster Online
Provides access to both a dictionary and a thesaurus.

OneLook Dictionaries
Search for words or acronyms from an extensive collection of general and specialized online dictionaries.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus Third Edition
Containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references in an easy-to-use format, this thesaurus features succinct word definitions and an innovative hyperlinked category index.

The American Heritage® Book of English Usage
With a detailed look at grammar, style, diction, word formation, gender, social groups and scientific forms, this valuable reference work is ideal for students, writers, academicians and anybody concerned about proper writing style.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.

The Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is the unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of English-language words, both present and past.

xrefer
Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from the world's leading publishers.

yourDictionary.com
Includes English, foreign language, and specialized dictionaries.

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