CHAIR-DAYS

  

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CHAIR-DAYS

Date "CHAIR-DAYS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1591. (references)


Specialty Definition: CHAIR-DAYS

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Literature

Chair-days Old age.
"I had long supposed that chair-days, the beautiful name for those days of old age ... was of Shakespeare's own invention ... but this is a mistake ... the word is current in Lancashire still."- Trench: English Past and Present, v.
"In thy reverence and thy chair-days, thus
To die in ruffian battle."
Shakespeare: 2 Henry VI., act v. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: CHAIR-DAYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-r-s-y"

-2 letters: acarids, ascarid, cardias, chadars, diarchy.

-3 letters: acarid, cairds, cardia, chadar, chadri, chairs, charas, chards, dachas, darics, dryish, hydras, hydria, hydric, rachis, radish, rayahs, shaird, sradha, yairds.

-4 letters: acari, acids, acidy, acrid, arias, asdic, ayahs, cadis, caids, caird, cards, chads, chair, chard, chars, chary, chays, chias, crash, dacha, dairy, daisy, daric, dashi, dashy, diary.

-5 letters: aahs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-h-i-r-s-y"
 

+3 letters: tachycardias.

 

+4 letters: achlorhydrias, rhapsodically.

 

+5 letters: polysaccharide, psychodramatic.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CHAIR-DAYS


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

43 48 41 49 52 2D 44 41 59 53

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

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

01000011 01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010 00101101 01000100 01000001 01011001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#72 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#45 &#68 &#65 &#89 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0048 0041 0049 0052 002D 0044 0041 0059 0053

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

37423543521538355953

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INDEX

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


  

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