http://vos.ucsb.edu/ Voice of the Shuttle woven by Alan Liu of UC Santa Barbara, once there go to References Resources Page. Alternative Dictionary, BritSpeak among the standard others.

http://www.acronymfinder.com/  Acronym Finder not only looks up acronyms in a database of about 60,000 but allows you to search words through the acronyms' meanings, e.g., all acronyms whose meanings have to do with "film".

http://www.bconnex.net/~randys/  Animated American Sign Language Dictionary

http://www.abt.org/dictionary/  Ballet dictionary complete with defination of terms with illustrations and quick-time videos for positions and steps.

http://www.bartleby.com/100/ Bartlett's Familiar Quotes, Columbia University site. Not just a listing but a search engine giving excellent results. Also can search by author.

http://www.servtech.com/~mvail/reference.html   Digital Librarian: "a librarian's choice of the best of the web" reference page. Here are links to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations to A&E's biography.com to Internet Encyclopedia to Internet Movie Database to Internet Public Library Reference Center to Vanderbilt Television News Archive and about 200 other reference resources.

http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/index.html   Dictionary Society of North America, Cleveland State University sponsored society.

http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict/   DOD Dictionary of Military Terms, The DOD Dictionary and the Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations master data base are managed by the Joint Doctrine Division, J-7, Joint Staff.

http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/ref2000.html  Internet Public Library Ready Reference Resources section links you to some of the best word wizards on the web.

http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm   Merriam Webster Dictionary with Thesaurus: fast, easy to read big print, just what you want from a dictionary.

http://www.onelook.com/   One Look Dictionaries: "2,436,455 words in 625 dictionaries now indexed." Finds your word, even the latest definitions of technical terms.

http://www.link.cs.cmu.edu/dougb/rhyme-doc.html  The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary, perfect rhymes, connects to MW dictionary, spell check, partial rhymes and more.

http://www.thesaurus.com/   Thesaurus: fast, easy to read big print, just what you wanted.

http://www.wordsmyth.net/   The Wordsmyth English Dictionary -Thesaurus one of the greatest reference tools you'll ever see. If you're not sure about spelling, use the Approximate Search ("elgant" retrieved "elegant"), and the computer will look for near matches; if you want to see all words that include your word, do a Floating Search ("brain" retrieved addlebrained, brainchild, brain wave, etc.). Not only are there definitions, there are synonyms--and since you can click on those to view full definitions, this is also a dictionary of synonyms.

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

http://encarta.msn.com/EncartaHome.asp  Encarta encyclopedia on line, in your choice of languages.

http://www.eb.com/ Encyclopedia Britannica on line available free trail, have to register

http://www.cam-info.net/enc.html  Free Internet Encyclopedia, words linked to sites for information.

http://www.refdesk.com/first.html   My Virtual Reference Desk: punch in My Ency. Button for a web guide encyclopedia. Enter encyclopedia in site search and link to several subject encyclopedias and a couple of general ones including Microsoft's Encarta. Again most of these are web guide encyclopedias, so with a jump jump you can usually find what you are looking for and a little more.

http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/referenc.htm   Virtual Reference Library from JMU. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, yellow and white pages, more links for reference.

http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/   Phrase and Fable Dictionary on-line, provided by Bibliomania. Since 1870 Cobham Brewer's book has been a browser's joy, thankfully on line it is in its browsable form as well as usual search mode resulting with complete page not just single definition.

http://www.pantheon.org/mythica   Encyclopedia Mythica "contains over 4200 definitions of gods and goddesses, supernatural beings and legendary creatures and monsters from all over the world." Easily browsed or searched and 175 illustrations. Definitions are a sentence or two, or a paragraph or two in length.

http://pubpages.unh.edu/~cbsiren/myth.html   Myths and Legends a mega jump site to information and texts. From dragons to Avalon to you name it world wide or time wise, there is a jump site here. Even the occasional dark ones.

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