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If you select All dictionaries, the search will be performed against all the dictionaries listed below.  This sometimes yields multiple, identical results, but just as often finds alternate definitions (and the occasional acronym).  The dictionaries used are:

• The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
• WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
• Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
• The Elements (07Nov00)
• V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2006)
• The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003)
• The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 July 2010)
• Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
• Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's)
• Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
• The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
• CIA World Factbook 2002
• U.S. Gazetteer Counties (2000)
• U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
• U.S. Gazetteer Zip Code Tabulation Areas (2000)
• English-Swedish Freedict dictionary
• Dutch-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Czech fdicts/FreeDict Dictionary
• English-Swahili xFried/FreeDict Dictionary
• Italian-English Freedict dictionary
• Turkish-German Freedict dictionary
• Dutch-French Freedict dictionary
• Latin-English Freedict dictionary
• English-French Freedict dictionary
• German-French Freedict dictionary
• English-Hindi Freedict Dictionary
• Danish-English Freedict dictionary
• Dutch-German Freedict dictionary
• Japanese-German Freedict dictionary
• Swahili-English xFried/FreeDict Dictionary
• French-German Freedict dictionary
• French-English Freedict dictionary
• German-Italian Freedict dictionary
• Slovak-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Romanian FreeDict dictionary
• English-Hindi Freedict Dictionary [reverse index]
• Spanish-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Latin Freedict dictionary
• Portuguese-German Freedict dictionary
• Scottish Gaelic-German Freedict dictionary
• Swedish-English Freedict dictionary
• Serbo-Croat-English Freedict dictionary
• German-Dutch Freedict dictionary
• Italian-German Freedict dictionary
• French-Dutch Freedict dictionary
• Afrikaans-German Freedict dictionary
• Arabic-English FreeDict Dictionary
• German-Portuguese Freedict dictionary
• English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary [reverse index]
• English-Spanish Freedict dictionary
• English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary
• English-Russian Freedict dictionary
• Welsh-English Freedict dictionary
• unknown
• English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary
• English-Portuguese Freedict dictionary
• The CIA World Factbook (1995)
• English-Welsh Freedict dictionary
• Croatian-English Freedict Dictionary
• Latin-German Freedict dictionary
• Portuguese-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Dutch Freedict dictionary
• English-German Freedict dictionary
• Irish-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary
• English-Serbo-Croat Freedict dictionary
• English-Irish Freedict dictionary
• Czech-English Freedict dictionary
• German-English Freedict dictionary
• English-Italian Freedict dictionary
• unknown
• English Monolingual Dictionaries
• Translating Dictionaries
• All Dictionaries (English-Only and Translating)