Reference.com is an online information source (encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, etc.) produced by Lexico Publishing Group, LCC.

Search results on it come from:

• The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
• The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms
• The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary
• Wall Street Words
• Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
• Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary
• Roget's Thesaurus
• Wikipedia
• Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary
• WordNet
• Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
• Jargon File
• CIA World Factbook
• Easton’s 1897 Bible Dictionary
• Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary
• U.S. Gazetteer

Opera search box

The Opera web browser allows you to add a search box to your personal bar. Locate the "search.ini" file in your Opera directory and add:

[Search Engine XX]
Name=&Dictionary.com
URL=http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s
Query=
Key=d
Is post=0
Has endseparator=0
Encoding=utf-8
Search Type=3
Verbtext=17063
Nameid=0
Position=4

Make sure you replace the "XX" with a number that has not been used already. For Opera 8 users, change the "File Version=X" at the top of the file by one to make Opera reload the file.

Firefox search box

MyCroft Plugin Or alternatively make a bookmark with the following data:

• Name: Dictionary.com
• Location: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=%s
• Keyword: dict

External links

• Reference.com
• Dictionary.com
• Thesaurus.com