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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cap Verses (To). Having the metre fixed and the last letter of the previous line given, to add a verse beginning with the given letter (of the same metre or not, according to prearrangement) thus: English. The way was long, the wind was cold (D). Dogs with their tongues their wounds do heal(L). Like words congealed in northern air(R). Regions Caesar never knew (W). With all a poet's ecstasy(Y). You may deride my awkward pace, etc. etc. Latin. Nil pictis timidus navita puppibus(S). Sunt quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum(M). Myrtoum pavidus nauta secet mare(E). Est qui nec veteris pocula Massici(I). Illum, si proprio condidit horreo(O). O, et presidium ... (as long as you please). It would make a Christmas game to cap proper names: as Plato, Otway, Young, Goldsmith, etc., or to cap proverbs, as: "Rome was not built in a day"; "Ye are the salt of the earth"; "Hunger is the best sauce"; "Example is better than precept"; "Time and tide wait for no man"; etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "CAP VERSES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 尻取り (Japanese word-chain game), 尻取 (Japanese word-chain game). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | しりとり (Japanese word-chain game). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | apcay ersesvay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-p-r-s-s-v" | |
-1 letter: crevasse, escapers, respaces. | |
-2 letters: asperse, creases, escaper, escapes, escarps, pareses, parsecs, precess, repaves, respace, scarves, scrapes, secpars, serapes, spacers, vespers. | |
-3 letters: aspers, averse, capers, caress, carses, carves, cavers, ceases, crapes, crases, craves, crease, creeps, crepes, erases, escape, escarp, escars, pacers, pareve, parsec, parses, passee, passer, pavers, peaces, peases, perses, prases, reaves, recaps, recess. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-p-r-s-s-v" | |
+4 letters: perseverances. | |
+5 letters: overspeculates, superachievers. | |
| 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. | |
| 1. Translations: Modern 2. Anagrams 3. Bibliography |
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