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When you do a title search in the Palomar College
Library with the word dictionary, you get 1,188 records. There are many varieties of
dictionaries in the library including: abridged and unabridged, foreign language,
thesauri, slang, and subject specific.
Black's Law Dictionary: Definitions of the Terms and Phrases of American and English Jurisprudence, Ancient and Modern. REF KF156 .B3 1979
Mosby's Medical, Nursing and Allied Health Dictionary REF R121 .M89 1994
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
.2nd edition 1989, 20 volumes REF PE1625 .O87 1989
This is the mother of all dictionaries containing more than 400,000 words and nearly two
million quotations. It not only defines the word but traces the meaning over time
from its first introduction in writing.
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