HEDGE PRIEST

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Hedge Priest A poor or vagabond parson. The use of hedge for vagabond, or very inferior, is common: as hedge-mustard, hedge-writer (a Grubb Street author), hedge-marriage (a clandestine one), etc. Shakespeare uses the phrase, "hedge-born swain" as the very opposite of "gentle blood." (1 Henry VI., iv. 1.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	HEDGE PRIEST. An illiterate unbeneficed curate, a patrico. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Anagrams: HEDGE PRIEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-g-h-i-p-r-s-t"
	-2 letters: greediest, pedigrees, predigest, resighted.
	-3 letters: deterges, diethers, digester, hedgiest, pedigree, perigees, perished, pestered, preedits, prestige, priested, redigest, reediest, respited, speedier, threeped.
	-4 letters: deepest, degrees, despite, deterge, diester, dieters, diether, dithers, edgiest, eeriest, egested, epeeist, girthed, greeted, hedgers, hedgier, heeders, heisted, heister, heredes, hipster, peeries, perigee, pestier, petered, preedit, preside, prithee, reedits, reested, resight, resited, respite, righted, sedgier, seedier, seepier, seethed, sheered, sheeted, sheeter, sighted, sighter, speeder, speered, speired, sphered, spiered, spirted, spright, steeped, steeper, steered, striped, threeps.
	-5 letters: deeper, degree, depths, desert, desire, deters, dieter, digest, dights, direst, dirges, dither, dreigh, driegh, driest, edgers, edgier, egrets, eiders, eights, either, espied, esprit, ethers, girted, girths, greeds, greets, grides, griped, gripes, griths, heders, hedger, hedges, heeder, heired, herpes, hiders, histed, peered, peerie, peised, perdie, perish, pester, peters, pished, pithed, preset, prides, priest, prised, redips, redipt, reedit, repegs, reseed, reship, reside, resite, rested, retied, reties, ridges, rights, ripest, seeder, seeped, seethe, sieged, sighed, sigher, sphere, spider, spired, spited, sprite, stiped, stride, stripe, tepees, theirs, theres, thirds, threep, threes, thrips, tiered, tigers, trepid, tripes.
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