Written by Robert Harris, author of several works on rhetoric and writing effectiveness.
Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language, 1st (1755) and 4th (1773) eds.
Cambridge University Press, CD-ROM. This database is available only in UT Libraries on Library computers. Contains page images and fully searchable transcription of the 18th-century editions of the dictionary edited by Samuel Johnson. Includes definitions, pronunciations, etymologies, and illustrative quotations from published works for each entry.
Primarily known for full-text literary works, LION also includes a selection of reference works, including the Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia, the Cambridge Encyclopedia,the Periodicals Contents Index: Literature, and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. LION also contains a Shakespeare Glossary, found in the left sidebar of the search screens.
Electronic compilation of entries from Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism, Dictionary of Literary Biography, Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature and full-text articles from more than 20 scholarly journals. Searchable by author, title, genre, literary movement/time period, and by literary theme. All resources are searched simultaneously; to select just one or more to search, click on "custom search."
Biographical dictionary of people of distinction in the British Isles and its colonies who died before December 31, 2000. Content includes the complete text of the new sixty-volume Oxford DNB with 50,000 biographies and 10,000 portrait illustrations as well as the complete text of the original thirty-three volume of the DNB.
Print edition available at PCL Reference
DA 28 O95 2004.
Contains definitions for most of the words in the English language, with information on their origins and quotations showing their range of meanings from the time they entered the language to the present. Print edition available at PCL Reference PE 1625 O87 1989.
