Description:
- The famous historical dictionary of English, providing not only the current meanings of words, but also their development through time.
- Includes the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary
- The full text search allows searching by full text, definitions, etymologies, quotations, quotation date, quotation author, quotation work, and quotation text.
- Guide to the OED.
Dates of Coverage: circa 1150
Truncation Symbol: * for multiple characters or ? for a single character
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Other info: always proxy off-campus, provides full text
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