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BESS O' BEDLAM

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Bess o' Bedlam A female lunatic vagrant. Bedlam is a common name for a madhouse, and Bess is a national name for a woman, especially of the lower order. The male lunatic is a Tom o' Bedlam. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: BESS O' BEDLAM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-b-b-d-e-e-l-m-o-s-s"

-2 letters: embossable.

-3 letters: assembled.

-4 letters: albedoes, assemble, beamless, beldames, bobsleds, damosels, embossed, somedeal.

-5 letters: albedos, aldoses, beadles, bedlams, bedless, beldame, beldams, blessed, bobsled, bolases, dabbles, damosel, damsels, debases, demoses, elodeas, lassoed, measled, measles, oedemas, seabeds, slabbed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BESS O' BEDLAM


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

42 45 53 53      4F 27      42 45 44 4C 41 4D

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

        

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

01000010 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01001111 00100111 00100000 01000010 01000101 01000100 01001100 01000001 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#32 &#79 &#39 &#32 &#66 &#69 &#68 &#76 &#65 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0053      004F 0027      0042 0045 0044 004C 0041 004D

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

3639535324992363938463547

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