>These are not actually dictionaries, but should be of interest to AWADers...

Wow, Bingley that was a really good steer. It's taken me 'til the weekend to get time to check it out, but I loved where the Quinion.com site took me. In case others haven't yet LIU I strongly recommend the trial. I got led to these other sites which might interest AWADers too:

http://www.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/Information.html
DE PROVERBIO
"Founded in January 1995 as the world's first refereed electronic journal of international proverb studies, De Proverbio soon became a book publisher also, devoted to paremiology (study of proverbs) and paremiography (collection of proverbs)." (their intro)

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/english.html
Voice of the Shuttle
A superb general gateway to the humanities (I'm probably teaching most regulars how to suck eggs, but if one person finds a useful link...)

http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/links.html
Writers’ Resources page lists hundreds of links, and if there is not at least one here for every AWADer... well, try the home page, then!

On a less specific note, I still find
http://www.britannica.com/
has a good general searching and linking ability.

This is such a useful self-help group: praise be the LIU