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Dictionary of rare (difficult) words that gives meanings for such words only at the end of the book.

Specific book-dictionary that gives an index of alf the words in the book denoting their occurance.

Concordance (dictionary) that denote the occur- ance and the line of important words alone or with: the matter dealt in it; The book that gives such words alone is called as Verbal concordance and: that which provides the matter as Real con- cordance.

. Glossaries that give explanation to rare (difficult)

words with suitable pictures about arts and science.

Encyclopaedia that gives detailed explanations, information about persons, places and other things of the world.

Linguistic dictionaries that gives equivalent im another or other languages for a word in a particular language.

Dictionary of proverbs in a language that tells. the proverbs in that language in alphabetic order.

Dictionary of poets that describes the life of great: poets in a language in the alphabetic order.

Dictionary that describes the numeral grouping of certain things like @q@ ae.7 (Iru Sutar)-(The- two great lights), a@pé@enr (Mukkunnam)-(the three qualities), g9a@urp) (Aimporri)-(the five sense organs) etc.