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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable   (bartleby.com)
"Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog 'words with a tale to tell.'"
LexicalFreeNet   (lexfn.com)
"Search for relationships between words, concepts, and people in this combination thesaurus, rhyming dictionary, pun generator, and concept navigator."
Merriam-Webster OnLine   (m-w.com)
"Look up words in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary or Thesaurus."
OneLook® Dictionary Search   (onelook.com)
"Think of this web site as a search engine for words and phrases."
Webopedia   (webopedia.com)
"The only online dictionary and search engine you need for computer and Internet technology definitions."
Wiktionary   (wiktionary.org)
"Welcome to Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with definitions, etymologies and pronunciations. Wiktionary is the lexical companion to the open content encyclopaedia Wikipedia."
The Wordsmyth English Dictionary/Thesaurus   (wordsmyth.net)
"The premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus. WEDT contains 50,000 headwords, and very precisely defined and hyperlinked synonyms. And the search engine allows for very flexible searching."
Free Online Dictionary of Computing   (ic.ac.uk)
"The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (FOLDOC) is a searchable dictionary of acronyms, jargon, programming languages, tools, architectures, operating systems, networking, theory, mathematics, telecoms, institutions, companies, projects, products, history, in fact anything to do with computing."