BESCRATCH

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BESCRATCH

Definition: BESCRATCH

BESCRATCH

Transitive verb

1. To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: BESCRATCH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-h-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: batchers, brachets, catchers, cratches.
	-2 letters: batcher, batches, bathers, berthas, braches, brachet, breaths, cachets, catcher, catches, chaster, rachets, ratches, scratch.
	-3 letters: arches, baches, barest, basher, baster, bather, bathes, bertha, berths, braces, brachs, bracts, breach, breast, breath, cabers, caches, cachet, carets, cartes, caster, caters, chares, charts, chaser, chaste, cheats, cherts, cratch, crates, earths, eschar, haters.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-c-e-h-r-s-t"
	+2 letters: backstretch.
	+4 letters: backstretches.
	+5 letters: bronchiectases, bronchiectasis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: BESCRATCH

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 45 53 43 52 41 54 43 48

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-... . ... -.-. .-. .- - -.-. ....

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01000101 01010011 01000011 01010010 01000001 01010100 01000011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#67 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#67 &#72

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0043 0052 0041 0054 0043 0048

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

363953375235543742

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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