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Provides comprehensive definitional, etymological, and historical information for recorded words in the English language. Requires login with UMaine account.

A searchable online dictionary.

"This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."

Links to more than 200 general and specialized language and subject dictionaries.

Search for perfect rhymes, match ending sounds, get definitions or related words, check spelling, or find homophones, semantic siblings, or synonyms.

Search for the meanings of abbreviations and acronyms, or find abbreviations and acronyms by typing in words. Includes a list of acronyms that have been searched for but not found.

Search acronyms and abbreviation, or move from words in combination to their abbreviation. Browse by categories (e.g. government, computing, etc.).

Provides comprehensive definitional, etymological, and historical information for recorded words in the English language. Requires login with UMaine account.

"The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) defines the vocabulary of the first six centuries (C.E. 600-1150) of the English language, using twenty-first century technology. The DOE complements the Middle English Dictionary (which covers the period C.E. 1100-1500) and the Oxford English Dictionary, the three together providing a full description of the vocabulary of English.

"Five hundred years of the vulgar tongue."

"This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago."

"An annotated collection of grammar and writing resources from around the web."

A standard, if opinionated, guide to prose style.

Set up an appointment! Includes links to a number of writing and language resources.

Online guide to process of writing and defending a thesis or dissertation. Includes summary of key ideas covered in guide and selected list of links at the end.

Companion piece to Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation. Covers each section in proposal with writing hints and examples.

Part of a series of guides on the process of preparing papers in history prepared by the History Department at Bowdoin. The Writing guide includes sections devoted to structure, content, use of primary materials and formatting papers.

A series of documents, each on a specific writing situation, including “How to Write a Thesis Statement", “Writing Book Reviews”, and “Personal Statements and Application Letters”.

A guide to the preparation of annotated bibliographies with sections defining the annotated bibliography, comparisons to abstracting, citation information and examples.

A bit of Fogler Library history.