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American Heritage Book of English Usage - contemporary guide to English usage

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language - The fourth edition of the unabridged dictionary.

English Language Reference - Oxford University Press books on English usage, idioms, proverbs, etc. Access restriced to IU.

OneLook - Definitons from many English language and subject dictionaries and encyclopedias. Plus, translations to and from other languages.

Roget's Thesurus - Roget's Thesaurus, 1911, version 1.02 (supplemented: July 1991)

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 Edition - More than 100,000 entries, made available by the ARTFL Project

WordNet: A Lexical Database for English - By the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University, an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.

Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus - Integrated English Dictionary and Thesaurus, made available by Robert Parks and the ARTFL Project; normal, floating and approximate searches. Now requires registration to use fully.

yourDictionary.com - More than 2500 dictionaries representing more than 300 languages.

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