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Onelook provides links for 19 dictionaries!

Dictionary.com - its name says it all. It has translates text and web pages, has crosswords and games too. And if you need help a rhyme try the The Semantic Rhyming Dictionary From CMU. A regular dictionary, a jargon dictionary, writing guide and links to other languages

Wikipedia

Encarta
MSN's Encarta Dictionary orally pronounces the word (via a WAV

Encyclopedia

Dictionary

Atlas

Want to check a definition or use a thesaurus?
Merriam Webster is a standard
The site has some word games and fun stuff too.
Or make sure you're using proper grammar.

(really a directory/search engine)

Translate from <---> Too many languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese or Japanese)

Langenburg has Dictionary, Rhyming, Crossword Puzzle Solver, Scrabble, Quotations, Thesaurus, Anagrams & Pig Latin

Yahoo! Reference links to:
American Heritage® Dictionary, American Heritage® Spanish Dictionary, Roget's II Thesaurus, Britannica Concise, World Factbook, Gray's Anatomy ,The Oxford Shakespeare, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Weights and Measures

The Internet Archive has old web sites. See how you favorite site looked 4 years ago. Also some great films.

Reference Desk has it all including word of the day from several dictionary sites

Virtual Reference Collection
points to all sorts or references

LibDex - The Library Index
Index of Libraries worldwide

Encyclopedia.com

A Dictionary of Units of Measurement

Computer terms

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Bucknell Univ.'s page that provides links to more than 800 dictionaries in 160 different languages

Javascipt page

Missed a crossword puzzle? Find it here

Live Science has Trivia & Quizzes, Images, Video and article on Space, Animals, health, environment, technology, history and more.

ASL Browser has movies of many words

Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism

I found Margin because I heard this wonderful short story "The 5:22" on NPR and wanted to read it.

Thank you, hello, good morning, good afternoon, good evening and good night, how are you?, welcome, goodbye, please, what is your name?, my name is..., do you speak English?, yes, no, and I don't understand in 465 languages.