1. American Heritage Book of English Usage
2. American Heritage Dictionary
3. American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
4. American Heritage Spanish Dictionary
5. Answers.com - free access to millions of topics from great dictionaries, encyclopedias, and much more
6. ArtLex Art Dictionary - over 3,600 terms in art/visual culture with images, pronunciation, quotations, and cross-references
7. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
8. Biographical Dictionary
9. Columbia Encyclopedia (short articles, usually about one paragraph)
10. Columbia World of Quotations
11. Dictionary.com
12. Encyclopedia of Psychology
13. Encyclopedia Smithsonian (links to resources on topics within the museum from Art to Zoology)
14. FindLaw Legal Dictionary (searchable by keyword)
15. Gray's Anatomy
16. Holocaust Encyclopedia (from the United States Holocaust Museum)
17. Language Dictionaries (for over 260 languages)
18. Library Spot! (reference sources, libraries, research tips)
19. Medical Encyclopedia (diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, surgeries; photos, illus.)
20. Merck Manual Home Edition ("the ultimate online health reference")
21. Merriam-Webster OnLine
22. Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary
23. One Look Reverse Dictionary (describe a concept and get a list of related words and phrases)
24. Onelook Dictionary (words, phrases, and translations from around the world)
25. Refdesk.com (huge multidisciplinary reference website with hundreds of resources)
26. Roget's International Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
27. Specialty Dictionaries (technical vocabulary in a wide variety of disciplines)
28. Strunk's Elements of Style
29. U.S. Legal Research Aids (online legal dictionaries and encyclopedias)
30. Visual Dictionary Online from Merriam-Webster (more than 6,000 images with 20,000 terms, definitions, and word pronunciation audio clips)
31. Webopedia - online dictionary and search engine for computer and Internet technology
32. Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia that anyone can edit (over 1 million articles)
33. Your Dictionary.com ("the global language resource")
34. Zimmerman's Research Guide (online encyclopedia for legal researchers)

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