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Literature | Kiss the Mistress (To). To make a good hit, to shoot right into the eye of the target. In bowls, what we now call the Jack used to be called the "mistress," and when one ball just touches another it is said "to kiss it." To kiss the Mistress or Jack is to graze another bowl with your own. "Rub on, and kiss the mistress."- Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida, iii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: KISS THE MISTRESS |
| Specialty definitions using "KISS THE MISTRESS": Highgate. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-i-i-k-m-r-s-s-s-s-s-t-t" | |
-5 letters: hermetists, metritises, misstrikes, mistresses, shriekiest, skirmishes, smitheries, tritheisms. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 49 53 53      54 48 45      4D 49 53 54 52 45 53 53 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01001001 01010011 01010011 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001101 01001001 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000101 01010011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K I S S   T H E   M I S T R E S S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 0049 0053 0053      0054 0048 0045      004D 0049 0053 0054 0052 0045 0053 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45435353254423924743535452395353 |
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