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The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce (Gutenberg text and audio)- The Devil's Dictionary (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1911), by Ambrose Bierce
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Filed under: English language -- Dictionaries- A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (first edition volumes, 1888-1928), ed. by James A. H. Murray, Henry Bradley, William A. Craigie, and C. T. Onions (page images at archive.org and HathiTrust)
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; New York: S. Converse, 1828), by Noah Webster
- An American Dictionary of the English Language (abridged from the quarto edition, revised, with appendix; New York: White and Sheffield, 1841), by Noah Webster, contrib. by John Walker (multiple formats at Google)
- The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (fifth edition) (searchable HTML with commentary at ahdictionary.com)
- Boucher's Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words: A Supplement to the Dictionaries of the English Language, Particularly Those of Dr. Johnson and Dr. Webster (nothing further published after "Blade"; London: Printed for Black, Young, and Young, 1832-1833), by Jonathan Boucher, ed. by Joseph Hunter and Joseph Stevenson, contrib. by J. Odell
- The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia (12 volumes; New York: The Century Co., c1906-1910), ed. by William Dwight Whitney (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both With Regard to Sound and Meaning: One Main Object of Which is, To Establish a Plain and Permanent Standard of Pronunciation; To Which is Prefixed a Prosodial Grammar (fourth edition, 2 volumes; London: Printed for Charles Dilly et al., 1797), by Thomas Sheridan
- The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English (seventh impression of first edition; Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1919), ed. by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionarium Britannicum, or, A More Compleat Universal Etymological English Dictionary Than Any Extant (London: Printed for T. Cox, 1730), ed. by N. Bailey, contrib. by George Gordon and Philip Miller (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of the English Language (sixth edition, two volumes; London: Printed for J. F. And C. Rivington, et al., 1785), by Samuel Johnson
- A Dictionary of the English Language (Boston: Hickling, Swan and Brewer, 1860), by Joseph E. Worcester
- A Dictionary of the English Language, Explanatory, Pronouncing, Etymological, and Synonymous, With a Copious Appendix (Springfield, MA: G. C. Merriam and Co., 1872), by Noah Webster, Chauncey A. Goodrich, Noah Porter, and William A. Wheeler (page images at MOA)
- The Encyclopaedic Dictionary: A New, and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language With a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronounciation, and Use (7 volumes; London et al.: Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co., 1879-1888), ed. by Robert Hunter
- Glossographia Anglicana Nova: or, A Dictionary, Interpreting Such Hard Words of Whatever Language, As Are At Present Used in the English Tongue, With Their Etymologies, Definition, &c. (London: Printed for D. Brown, et al., 1707), contrib. by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
- Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (free online edition) (searchable HTML at ldoceonline.com)
- Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (current edition, with additional material) (searchable HTML at m-w.com)
- A New Dictionary of the English Language (2 volumes; London: W. Pickering, 1836-1837), by Charles Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
- A New Universal Technological, Etymological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Science, Literature, and Art (2 volumes; London: C. Routledge and Co., 1852), by John Craig (page images at HathiTrust)
- The New World of Words: or, Universal English Dictionary (6th edition; London: Printed for J. Philips, et al., 1706), ed. by Edward Phillips and John Kersey (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (18th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge, and Library of Reference (19th edition; London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), by Samuel Maunder (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Treasury of Knowledge and Library of Reference (new and revised dition; 3 volumes; New York: C. Childs, 1850), contrib. by Edwin Williams, I. Daniel Rupp, Lyman Cobb, Hugh Moore, and Samuel L. Knapp
- Universal Dictionary of the English Language: A New and Original Work Presenting for Convenient Reference the Orthography, Pronunciation, Meaning, Use, Origin and Development of Every Word in the English Language (4 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier, 1897), ed. by Robert Hunter and Charles Morris (page images at HathiTrust)
- Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (based on the 1913 Merriam-Webster edition)
- searchable HTML at Chicago
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- An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (new and revised edition; Oxford, UK: At the Clarendon press, ca. 1910), by Walter W. Skeat
- Aleutian Indian and English Dictionary, by Charles A. Lee (Gutenberg text)
- New Voyages to North-America (2 volumes; London: Printed for H. Bowicke et al., 1703), by baron de Lahontan
- A Sample Lexicon of Pan-Arabic (Ann Arbor: Center for Near Eastern and North African Studies, University of Michigan, 1975), by Ernest T. Abdel-Massih (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Arabic-English Lexicon (8 parts (all in "book I"; book II never published); London: Williams and Norgate, 1863-1893), ed. by Edward William Lane and Stanley Lane-Poole (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (2 volumes; 1903), by Marcus Jastrow
- Sefer Ha-Shoroshim: A Hebrew and English Lexicon Containing All the Words of the Old Testament, With the Chaldee Words in Daniel, Ezra, and the Targums, and Also the Talmudical and Rabbinical Words Derived From Them (London: Printed for the author and sold by Longman, Reese, Orme, Brown and Green, et al., 1834), by Selig Newman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Bikol Dictionary (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, c1971), by Malcolm Warren Mintz
- Dictionary and Grammar of the Chamorro Language of the Island of Guam (Washington: GPO, 1918), by Edward Ritter von Preissig
- Commercial Press English and Chinese Pronouncing Dictionary: Comprising 100,000 Words and Phrases, With Translations, Pronunciations, Etymologies, Definitions, Illustrations, etc., etc. (first edition, in English and Chinese; Shanghai: Printed at the Commercial Press, 1902)
- English and Chinese Standard Dictionary (1-volume small type first edition; Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1920), ed. by Hui-ch'ing Yen (multiple formats at archive.org)
- English and Chinese Standard Dictionary (1-volume small type fourth edition; Shanghai: Commercial Press, 1921), ed. by Hui-ch'ing Yen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Dictionary of Spoken Chinese: Chinese-English, English-Chinese (War Dept. Technical Manual TM 30-933; 1945), by United States War Department (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chinese Characters: Their Origin, Etymology, History, Classification And Signification (2 volumes; Hejian: Catholic Mission Press, 1915), by Léon Wieger, trans. by L. Davrout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Vocabulary and Outlines of Grammar of the Nitlakapamuk or Thompson Tongue (1880), by J. B. Good (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon (Victoria, BC: T.N. Hibben, late 1800s) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Pocket Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon: the Indian Trading Language of Alaska, the Northwest Territory and the Northern Pacific Coast (San Francisco: Downing & Clark, 1898) (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Trukese-English and English-Trukese Dictionary, With Notes on Pronunciation, Grammar, Vocabularies, Phrases (Pearl Harbor, HI: U. S. Naval Military Govt., 1947), by Samuel H. Elbert (page images at HathiTrust)
- Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond: Containing Some Account of the North-Eastern Coast of America and of the Tribes Inhabiting That Remote Region (London: Printed for J. Mawman, 1817), by Edward Chappell
- A Dictionary of the Dano-Norwegian and English Languages / Dansk-Norsk-Engelsk Ordbog (third edition, in Danish; Copenhagen: Gyldendal (F. Hegel and Son), 1897), by A. Larsen, ed. by Johs. Magnussen
- The English Dictionarie, or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words (eighth edition; London: Printed for T. W., 1647), by Henry Cockeram
- The English Dictionarie of 1623 (reprint, with new introduction; New York: Huntington Press, 1930), by Henry Cockeram, contrib. by Chauncey Brewster Tinker (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Table Alphabetical of Hard Usual English Words, ed. by Robert Cawdrey (HTML wiht commentary in the UK)
- English-Eskimo and Eskimo-English Vocabularies, Preceded By Ethnographical Memoranda Concerning the Arctic Eskimos in Alaska and Siberia (Washington : G.P.O., 1890), by Roger Wells and John W. Kelly (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Esperanto-English Dictionary (third edition; London: "Review of Reviews" Office, 1907), by Achille Motteau
- Esperanto Handy Pocket Vocabulary: English-Esperanto and Esperanto-English (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., c1903), ed. by J. C. O'Connor (multiple formats at archive.org)
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