GLORY HAND

  

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GLORY HAND

Specialty Definition: GLORY HAND

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Literature

Glory Hand In folk lore, a dead man's hand, supposed to possess certain magical properties.
"De hand of glory is hand cut off from a dead man as have been hanged for murther, and dried very nice in de shmoke of juniper wood." - Sir W. Scott: The Antiquary (Dousterswivel). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GLORY HAND

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

glory hand hole job

4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GLORY HAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-g-h-l-n-o-r-y"

-2 letters: daylong, goldarn, grandly, organdy.

-3 letters: dragon, gnarly, hadron, hagdon, hardly, holard, ladron, lardon, orangy.

-4 letters: adorn, agony, ahold, algor, along, angry, argol, argon, donga, glady, gland, glary, glory, gnarl, godly, gonad, goral, grand, groan, grody, gyral, gyron, handy, hardy, hoagy, hoard, hoary, hogan, honda, horal, horny, hydra, hydro, lardy, largo, logan, loran, lyard.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-g-h-l-n-o-r-y"
 

+3 letters: hydroplaning.

 

+4 letters: grandmotherly, hydroxylating, wrongheadedly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GLORY HAND


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

47 4C 4F 52 59      48 41 4E 44

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

    

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

01000111 01001100 01001111 01010010 01011001 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#76 &#79 &#82 &#89 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 004C 004F 0052 0059      0048 0041 004E 0044

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

4146495259242354838

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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