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Acronyms and Abbreviation Dictionary
http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html
List of acronyms and abbreviations in the Network Acronym and Abbreviation Server formerly available by email.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/
A searchable, cross-indexed, listing of many familiar quotations, each traced to the original author.

Dictionaries on the Net
http://math-www.uni-paderborn.de/HTML/Dictionaries.html
Every dictionary, thesaurus in the world.

Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable
The Dictionary of Phrase & Fable by the Rev. Cobham Brewer, full text searchable.

Strunk's Elements of Style 
http://www.bartleby.com/
Intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature. It aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style. Other refernces include Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition; American Heritage Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Roget's II: The New Thesaurus; American Heritage Book of English Usage; Simpson's Contemporary Quotations; Bartlett's Familiar Quotations; King James Bible; Oxford Shakespeare; Gray's Anatomy; World Factbook.

Etymology of First Names 
http://www.pacificcoast.net/~muck/etym.html
Find the meaning of hundreds of first names, organized alphabetically.

Merriam-Webster Online 
http://www.m-w.com
From a built in dictionary and thesaurus to a great Word of the Day List-Serv, this site has tons of stuff for teachers.

OneLook Dictionaries 
http://onelook.com/
Indexes and links word definitions from nearly 150 online dictionaries.

Online Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
From Webster to Estonian, Chinese to Swahili, the links are here.

Pedro's Dictionaries
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~pedro/dictionaries.html
Contains more than a dozen foreign language on-line dictionaries as well as specialized dictionaries.

Rhyming Dictionary
http://www.WriteExpress.com/online.html
Generates words that rhyme with syllables entered into the form. Links to poetry and songwriting resources.

Roget's Thesaurus 
http://www.thesaurus.com/
Search the headwords or full text of Roget's Thesaurus, 1911.

Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/diction.html
Comprehensive dictionary site includes foreign language,  acronyms, thesauri, grammars, and specialized with links to more than 800 dictionaries in 150 different languages.

Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
http://www.wordsmyth.net/
This is a combination dictionary and thesaurus that allows you to search for exact or approximate words. It also has definitions for some phrases.

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FOREIGN/FRENCH

French-English Dictionary
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/FR-ENG.html
Look up words in a simple French English Dictionary containing about 75,000 terms.

Internet Dictionary Project
http://www.june29.com/IDP/IDPsearch.html
Translate English to Spanish, Italian, French, Latin, Portuguese and German  and vice-versa.

Travlang's Translating Dictionaries
http://dictionaries.travlang.com/
BEST language and travel resources on the web. Teach the basics of over 70 languages and help you lookup thousands of words.

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SCIENCE

BioTech Life Science Dictionary
http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/search/dict-search.html
A searchable dictionary of over 3700 terms relating to the life sciences and medicine.

Dave Math Tables
http://www.sisweb.com/math/tables.htm
A hugh collection of mathematical reference tables, for example: trig identities, geometric formulas, algebraic basic identities, and more.

Dictionary of Units
http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/dictunit.htm
A summary of the units of measurement in use around the world today. Definitions, standards and conversion factors.

Periodic Table of the Elements 
http://www.webelements.com/
http://www.chemicalelements.com/
The periodic table, with information about all the chemical elements.

Search the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/
A searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architecture, operating systems, networking, theory, history, in fact anything to do with computing. 

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SOCIAL SCIENCE

Biography Online 
http://www.biography.com
A searchable directory of over 15,000 brief  biographies from the Cambridge Dictionary of Biography.

Saints And Angels 
http://saints.catholic.org/stsindex.html
Search for famous saints and angels.

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