Dictionaries & Thesauri

Subject Specific Databases

Dictionary of Old English/Old English Corpus (http://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doecorpus/) VPN

A complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts. A catalogue of the over 3000 texts included in the corpus is available in Angus Cameron's 'A List of Old English Texts' in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron (PE279.F7 Shields Library)

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary [via Encyclopedia Britannica] (http://search.eb.com) VPN

Licensed online version of the Merriam-Webster''s Collegiate Dictionary.

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Oxford English Dictionary (http://dictionary.oed.com/) VPN

(or OED) is an historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, illustrated by quotations from a wide range of sources.

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Roget's II: The New Thesaurus [via Bartleby.com] (http://www.bartleby.com/62/)

Third edition, containing 35,000 synonyms and over 250,000 cross-references.

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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged [via Chadwyck-Healy] (http://uclibs.org/PID/16454) VPN

A dictionary of the English language containing 450,000 vocabulary entries. America's premier lexicographical work, one of the Individual Literature Collections in Chadwyck-Healy's Literature Online (LION), [1993 edition]

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