REFERENCE LIBRARY
ARTFL Project: ROGET'S Thesaurus Search Form
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
Casey's Snow Day Reverse Dictionary
Search for words based
on their definitions
http://www.c3.lanl.gov:8075/cgi/casey/revdict
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/cmudict
The Human-Language Page
http://www.june29.com/HLP/
Hypertext Webster Interface Author: Bennet Yee
Searchable
English dictionary that contains many hypertextual links in its entries
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster?
Oxford English Dictionary
http://www.oed.com/dicts.html
Phrase Finder--Searchable
Does for phrases what a thesaurus
does for words.
http://www.shu.ac.uk/web-admin/phrases/
Rhyming Dictioanry
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dougb/rhyme.html
American Slanguage
Pick a city--talk like the locals
http://www.slanguage.com:80/
Argentine Slang
It's more idiomatic than the other
countries in SA
http://www.middlebury.edu/~leparc/htm/lengua.htm
Aviator Slang
http://www.nasni.navy.mil/nha/slang.htm
College slang dictionary
gopher://wiretap.spies.com:70/00/Library/Article/Language/slang.col
Crackin Wise: A Slang Dictionary
1. Selections from The
dictionary of African-American Slang by Clarence Major
2. Selections
from American Tramp & Underworld Slang by Godfrey Irwin
3.
Australian Slang
4. Slang from the 1880's
5. Logger Talk of the
Pacific Northwest
http://netspace.org:80/~mrl/projects/writing/slang.html
Dorktionary
http://www.latech.edu/~jlk/jwz/dorktionary/index.shtml
International Slang
An internet collaborative project
http://www.notam.uio.no/~hcholm/altlang/
Jargon File
Hacker slang illuminating hackish tradition,
folklore, and humor
http://www.cnam.fr/Jargon/
Mountain Bike Slang Dictionary
http://world.std.com:80/~jimf/biking/slang.html
The Totally Unofficial Rap Dictionary
http://www.sci.kun.nl/thalia/rapdict/dictionary.html
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang
Sam Spade,
Bogart, et al
http://www.vex.net/~buff/slang.html
Dictionary of Cell Biology
Cross-referenced definitions of
terms found in modern biology literature
http://www.mblab.gla.ac.uk/dictionary/
Multilingual Glossary of Technical and Popular Medical Terms
Cross references in nine European languages
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
Rasta/Patois Dictionary (from Reggae International)
Although short, a number of sayings, idioms, and terms are translated into
English
http://niceup.com/patois.txt
Satellite Terms
http://www.miralite.com/Glossary.html
Skeptic's Dictionary
http://wheel.ucdavis.edu/~btcarrol/skeptic/dictcont.html
Literary Dictionary
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/2297/literary.html
Computer Desktop Encylopedia--Searchable
http://www.currents.net/resources/cyclo/cyclo.html
Encyclopædia Brittanica
The Real Thing: By subscription but
some free teasers are available
http://www.eb.com/
Encyclopædia Brittanica Internet Guide
Web Guide
http://www.ebig.com/
Free Internet Encyclopedia
http://clever.net/cam/encyclopedia.html
Ancient Greece Searchable Encyclopedia
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/art&arch.html
The Encyclopedia Mythica
Mythology, Folklore, Mysticism
http://www.pantheon.org/myth/
My Virtual Encyclopedia
Encyclopedia pointer to web
resources
http://www.refdesk.com/myency.html
Encyclopedia Smithsonian
http://www.si.edu/strttxt.htm
An amazing variety of calendars: Time, Place, Culture.
http://www.panix.com/~wlinden/calendar.shtml
Calendar
http://www.stud.unit.no/USERBIN/steffent/kalender.pl
Calendarland
http://www.juneau.com/home/janice/calendarland/
This Day In History
http://www.historychannel.com/today/
U.S. NATIONAL DEBT CLOCK
http://www.brillig.com:80/debt_clock/
World Clock
http://www.stud.unit.no/USERBIN/steffent/verdensur.pl?+1
HISTORY AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS
Electronic Sources for History
http://www.msstate.edu/Archives/History/netuse/history.guide
Hippocratic Oath
gopher://ftp.std.com/00/obi/book/Hippocrates/Hippocratic.Oath
Historical Documents
Full text of important historical
documents, e.g., MagnaCarta, Gettysburg Address, etc.
gopher://peg.cwis.uci.edu:7000/11/gopher.welcome/peg/VIRTUAL%20REFERENCE%20DESK
Horus WWW Links to History Resources
http://www.ucr.edu/h-gig/horuslinks.html
Presidential Documents
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/