Queer Dictionary

Source.

"A dictionary of words, acronyms and expressions you may come across in the blogs of people in (or close to) the QUILTBAG community . . . .  Posts describing identities (e.g. gender, sexual orientation, etc.) are not definitive. This dictionary should not be used to tell someone how they should identify."

The American Policy Player's Guide and Dream Book (1892)

Policy, also known as a numbers racket, was an illegal lottery played mostly in poor neighborhoods (black, Italian, latin)  in the US, wherein a bettor attempts to pick three digits to match those that will be randomly drawn the following day (Source). The book below--which could pass as a book on dream interpretation--has a secondary purpose. To associate winning policy numbers with the dreamer's dream. More context: see, Herbert Gladstone Parris: Professor Konje Policy Players Dream Books and Policy Pete’s Dream Book (1933) | Digital Harlem Blog.

The First American Sex Manual

In full.

Thanks Stephen J. Gertz via Booktryst

Video Game Storytelling, Theory and Terminology

• Half Real: A Dictionary of Video Game Terminology
• Computer dictionary and glossary
• The Sophistication and Stupidity of Video Game Storytelling
• Finally a proper Marxist videogame
• Researcher aims to make video games 'more meaningful' - Sudbury - CBC News
• GameDev Game Dictionary
• The Rise of the Stupid Game

The Devil's Dictionary (1907)

Source.

Bible

Search for biblical passages by key word. Multiple editions.

A Moral Alphabet by Hilaire Belloc

A Moral Alphabet by Hilaire Belloc.

Excerpt:

For a Family

taking a walk

In Arcadia Terrace, no doubt:

The parents indulge in intelligent talk,

While the children they gambol about.

At a quarter-past six they return to their tea,
Of a kind that would hardly be tempting to me,

Though my appetite passes belief.

There is jam, Ginger Beer, Buttered Toast, Marmalade,
With a Cold Leg of Mutton and Warm Lemonade,

And a large Pigeon Pie very skillfully made

To consist almost wholly of Beef.

MORAL

A Respectable Family taking the air

Is a subject on which I could dwell;

It contains all the morals that ever there were,

And it sets an example as well.

Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science

ODLIS — Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science.

Enquire within upon Everything

The big Victorian book on how to do, yes, everything.

Subtitled: The Great Victorian Domestic Standby.

Massive.

For download or you can read it online.

Canting Dictionary (1736)

Here's a scanned and indexed copy of a 1736 guide to thieves' cant.