http://www.m-w.com/netdict.htm

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You know what a thesaurus is for. Here's one you can use without flipping pages.

http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/acro.html

Find the full meaning of acronyms and abbreviations fast, or try a reverse search for all acronyms in a given field.

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http://etext.virginia.edu/koran.html

This Online Book Initiative text at the University of Virginia finds the chapter, verse, and full text from the English translation by M. H. Shakir.

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http://etext.virginia.edu/rsv.browse.html

This University of Virginia electronic text of the Revised Standard Version of the Bible includes the Old and New Testaments and the 18 books of the Apocrypha.

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http://www.cc.columbia.edu/acis/bartleby/bartlett/

You won't get many 20th-century quotations here (this is the 1901 issue), but this part of Columbia University's Bartleby project serves up the first edition of Bartlett's master work.

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This online phrase book from Travlang helps you make the grade, from cross-cultural meetings to international email.

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You don't have to rise with the roosters to know that The Old Farmer's Almanac is the place to go for answers both trivial and practical.