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Legal Black's Law Dictionary

A Dictionary of Law 1893
A Dictionary and Compendium of American and English Jurisprudence - definitions prior to 1900.

Australian Legal Words and Phrases
Link is to LexisNexisAustralia subscription service - when you get into Lexis click on Dictionaries and and select Australian Legal Words and Phrases from the list

Duhaime's Law Dictionary
'Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime'. Organised alphabetically, this is a very useful resource.

Everybody's Law Glossary
Nolo's legal glossary

Glossary of legal terms
US based but good legal glossary

Law.com Dictionary
Search or browse this dictionary

Webster's Dictionary of Legal, Lawful & Propaganda Terms
From the International Human Rights Conservancy

Subject-specific.

Oxford Dictionary of Australian Investment Terms

Glossary of Family Law Terms
From Divorcelawinfo (US site). Latin Dictionary

Latin dictionaries

Latin Dictionary and Grammar Aid
Provides word list, grammar aid and English translations

Thesauras

Thesauras
Includes search engine, alphabetical index, categorial index, word of the day and 'fun and games' (crossword puzzles and more)

Thesaurus

Other

Acronym and abbreviation list
Search engine and glossary

Cambridge Dictionaries Online
Search within one of four Cambridge Dictionaries Online: Cambridge International Dictionary of English; Cambridge Dictionary of American English; Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms; Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.

Dictionaries
From the Library Spot. Includes links to online dictionaries in 130 languages, Roget's Theasaurus, a semantic rhyming dictionary, an acronym dictionary, a phrase finder, a medical terms glossary and translator dictionaries

OzNetLaw Glossary of Words and Terms

Links to various dictionaries

Your Dictionary
Search over a range of dictionaries and a thesaurus. Includes language dictionaries, multi-lingual dictionaries, translation, language identifiers, 'nyms and more (include thesaurus, rhyming, phrase, pronunciation, acronym, synonym, homophone, antonym, lexicography and spalling), grammars, and specialty dictionaries (including law, business, finance, medicine, computing, gold, sports, sailing, education, space and many more).