DUMB-BIDDING

  

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DUMB-BIDDING

Specialty Definition: DUMB-BIDDING

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Dumb-bidding A sale by auction effected thus: The owner fixes an upset-price on an article, writes it on a slip of paper, and covers the slip up. The article is then offered to the bidders, and withdrawn unless some bid reaches the upset price. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DUMB-BIDDING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-b-d-d-d-g-i-i-m-n-u"

-4 letters: bidding, budding, dibbing, dubbing, dumbing, imbuing, mudding.

-5 letters: biding, dubbin, duding, indium.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DUMB-BIDDING


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

44 55 4D 42 2D 42 49 44 44 49 4E 47

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

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

01000100 01010101 01001101 01000010 00101101 01000010 01001001 01000100 01000100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#45 &#66 &#73 &#68 &#68 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0055 004D 0042 002D 0042 0049 0044 0044 0049 004E 0047

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

385547361536433838434841

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
3. Bibliography


  

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