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Dictionaries

Oxford Dictionaries - English This link opens in a new window
This integrated, smart-linked English language resource offers quick search access to definitions of words, phrases, and idioms, with guidance on style and usage, grammar, and spelling; and specialist guides for legal and technical writing.
Oxford English Dictionary This link opens in a new window
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The full text of the classic 22-volume Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd Edition, which provides information on the historical development of the language.

Middle English Compenum
The Middle English Compendium is a publication of the University of Michigan Library, the latest embodiment of the University's long-standing involvement in the study of Middle English. The Compendium has been designed to offer easy access to and some interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary (MED); a Bibliography of Middle English primary texts, limited to those cited by the MED and based on the MED bibliographies; and a searchable full-text Corpus of Middle English prose and verse.

Gale Literary Sources This link opens in a new window
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Integrates Literature resources from Gale and Literature Criticism Online into a single research environment. Includes: Dictionary of Literary Biography Complete Online, Gale Virtual Reference Library, Literature Criticism Online, Literature Resource Center, Scribner Writers Series, and Twayne's Authors Series.

Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 300 Oxford University Press dictionaries and reference works. Texts are updated after new editions of the print book are published.