A dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. In some languages, words can appear in many different forms, but only the lemma form appears as the main word or headword in most dictionaries. Many dictionaries also provide pronunciation information; grammatical information; word derivations, histories, or etymologies; illustrations; usage guidance; and examples in phrases or sentences. Dictionaries are most commonly found in the form of a book.
History
The first monolingual English dictionary is usually considered to be Robert Cawdrey's 1604 A Table Alphabeticall (text).Micklethwait, David (2005). Noah Webster and the American Dictionary, 34. ISBN 0786421576. Cawdrey's dictionary only defined loanwords.
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A Concise Old English Dictionary - John R. Clark Hall's A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition. Each page of the original is available in PNG and TIFF formats.
Bosworth-Toller Dictionary - An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary by Joseph Bosworth, edited and enlarged by T. N. Toller. Each page of the original is available in HTML and TIFF formats. Includes a search engine.
EOW Old English Translator - Online tool that translates single Old English words to their modern English equivalents, and vice versa. The tool is named Englisc Onstigende Wordbōc or EOW.
OEME Old English Dictionaries - An Old English to modern English dictionary and a modern English to Old English dictionary from the Old English Made Easy (OEME) project.
WordGumbo: Old English - Contains both an Old English to modern English lexicon and a modern English to Old English lexicon.
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