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Date "FIGURE-HEAD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1837. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Figure-head A figure on the head or projecting cutwater of a ship. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FIGURE-HEAD |
| Specialty definitions using "FIGURE-HEAD": Admiral. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ADMIRAL, n. That part of a war-ship which does the talking while the figure-head does the thinking. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "FIGURE-HEAD"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | keulakuva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | figure de proue (figurehead, figurine). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | igure-headfay mutrã (face, index, mug, pan, Phiz, Snoot, snout), galion (galleon), conducãtor numai cu numele. (various references) hình chạm ở đầu mũi tà u bù nhìn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: figurehead. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-g-h-i-r-u" | |
-2 letters: argufied. | |
-3 letters: figured, gaudier, hagride, headier, hedgier, refuged, refugia. | |
-4 letters: adhere, aeried, agreed, argued, deafer, dearie, defier, dragee, dreigh, driegh, edgier, faerie, faired, feared, feriae, figure, fridge, geared, guider, haired, header, hedger, hegari, hegira, heifer, heired, rediae, refuge, uredia, ureide. | |
-5 letters: adieu, aerie, afire, agree, aider, aired, argue, auger, aurei, deair, defer, dirge, eager. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-g-h-i-r-u" | |
+1 letter: figureheads. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Quotations: Non-fiction 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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