Reference Works

• Acronyms and Abbreviations Very fast searcher and useable even with Lynx.
• Acronym Finder "...all subjects, with a focus on computers, technology, telecommunications, and the military."
• Anagram Generator "Over 1143888 anagrams served!"
• Wordsmyth Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus "...dictionary and a thesaurus with powerful and flexible search capabilities."
• WWWebster Dictionary From the time-honored Merriam Webster company.
• DICT Uses "...several freely available dictionary databases, with over 300,000 total headwords..." Ongoing project.
• LOGOS Multi-language translating dictionary.
• ARTFL Dict. "1913 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary"
• Internet Public Library Search for internet, world wide web documents.
• InfoMine Incredible scholastic resource by the University of Riverside, California.
• Australian Libs. Another tremendous library source from the folks down under searching multiple libraries.
• National Lib. of Australia Search specific to the National Libraries of Australia.
• Clearinghouse Guides to specific topics on the WWW/Internet.
• babyOIL Library "...unified interface to common resource discovery sources."
• Vassar Libraries Search by subject or keyword.
• San Francisco Public Lib. Search by keyword, subject, author, title, call number, "et cetera."
• Roget's Thesaurus Use a categorical or alphabetical index or a search form .
• Penn. Lib. Web Lists the 15 libraries at the University of Pennsylvania.
• Mythology "a site dedicated to making your search for myths, legends, folklore, and religions both past and present easier and more enjoyable."
• Biographical Dict. "...more than 27,000 notable men and women who have shaped our world"
• Slanguage Dictionary All those words that give English it's flavor.
• The American Memory "Historical Collections for the National Digital Library"
• Today in History Pick a date and get a list of historical events for it.
• RootsWeb Large list of genealogical database searchers.
• Surname Search "Trace the History of Your Family Name".
• CMU Pronouncing Dictionary "...pronunciation dictionary for North American English that contains over 100,000 words and their transcriptions."
• Sociological Subjects Use the search form or browse through a huge alpha list of categories.
• Bibliomania Keyword search allows search through all or each of 5 categories or literature.
• Abraham lincoln As the title says, honest Abe pages and info.
• Symantic Rhyming Dict. "...use it to help write poetry, song lyrics, greeting cards, witticisms, and more."
• Language Identifier "...will attempt to identify automatically the language of a sentence, phrase, or word..."
• Library of Congress By both keyword and alpha index.
• SOSIG Catalogue "... the Internet equivalent of an academic research library for the social sciences."
• Internet Classics Arch. "Mainly Greco-Roman works (some Chinese and Persian), all in English translation."
• Online Medeval and Classic Lib. "...collection of some of the most important literary works of Classical and Medieval civilization."
• Surname Search Surname searches in four countries. (Multiple popups)
• Recent Ovidian Bibliography "...publications relating to Ovid from 1990-present."
• Encyclopedia.com "...more than 14,000 diverse articles to the resources available on Infonautics' popular online research service."
• Koran Use either the search or browse link.
• Quote Search Search options include multiple quotations databases.
• Web of Online Dicts. "...linked to more than 1,000 dictionaries in 200 different languages."
• Word Central "...offers kids a student dictionary, Word of the Day, and interactive word games. Includes homework help and lesson plans for parents, teachers."
• Crossword Solver "...finds only single English words, not phrases, names, or proper nouns (yet), and it only supports words up to 10 letters long (so far)...."