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Dictionaries

American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language ...Fourth Edition
www.bartleby.com/61/
Over 90,000 entries feature 10,000 new words and senses, 70,000 audio word pronunciations, 900 full-page color illustrations, language notes and word-root appendixes.

Basic Dictionary of American Sign Language
www.masterstech-home.com/ASLDict.html
The title says it all.
Merriam Webster
www.m-w.com
This well-known dictionary publisher offers a free online thesaurus and dictionary.
Online Dictionaries @HERO
http://www.hero.ac.uk/uk/reference_and_subject_resources/resources/online_dictionaries472.cfm
A list of many electronic dictionaries, general and specific. Some are free, others require a subscription. Compiled by Higher Education & Research Opportunities in the United Kingdom (HERO).
Specialized dictionaries...compiled at the Librarians' Index to the Internet
lii.org/search/file/dictionaries
Over 50 specialized dictionaries, from Accounting to Weights & Measures
Terminology Collection of Online Dictionaries
www.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect/
Term-Online (compiled by Anita Nuoppenen of Finland) includes links to a wide variety of specialized dictionaries in such subject areas as: Agriculture, Engineering, Geology, Law, Meteorology, Printing & Graphic Design, Religion and many others.
WordNet
http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
More than a dictionary (and less). Self-described as "an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets." To use it, is to understand its usefulness.
your Dictionary.com
www.yourdictionary.com
A remarkably wide-ranging collection of language and dialect dictionaries on the Internet. Compiled by Richard Beard at Bucknell University.

About Dictionaries

Dictionary Society of North America
polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/dsna/
This society is for "people interested in dictionary making, study, collection, and use."