SCIRRHOUS

  

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SCIRRHOUS

Definition: SCIRRHOUS

SCIRRHOUS

Adjective

1. Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCIRRHOUS" was first used: 1563. (references)



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Crosswords: SCIRRHOUS

English words defined with "SCIRRHOUS": Scirrhosity. (references)

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Expression: SCIRRHOUS

Expression using "SCIRRHOUS": Scirrhous cancer or Hard cancer. Additional references.

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

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Modern Translations: SCIRRHOUS

Language Translations for "SCIRRHOUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

σκιρώδησ, σκληρόσ (bloody minded, callous, cold-hearted, cruel, crusty, flinty, hard, steely, stiff, stony, stubbed, stubbly, tough, truculent). (various references)

   

Manx

  

creoi-changyragh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

irrhousscay

   

Russian 

  

уплотненный. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: SCIRRHOUS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Greek700 BCE-300 CE

skirrhos. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Rhyming with "SCIRRHOUS"

Words rhyming with "SCIRRHOUS" (pronounced 'Scir"rhous'): Cirrhous. (additional references)

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Anagrams: SCIRRHOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-h-i-o-r-r-s-s-u"

-1 letter: scirrhus.

-2 letters: cirrous, currish, cursors, sourish.

-3 letters: chiros, chirrs, choirs, chorus, churrs, cirrus, cruors, curios, cursor, houris, ichors, orchis, scours, shirrs.

-4 letters: chiro, chirr, choir, churr, coirs, cross, cruor, crush, cuish, curio, currs, cusso, hocus, houri, hours, ichor, orris, risus, scour, shirr, shris, sorus, sours, sushi.

-5 letters: chis, coir, cors, cosh, coss, cris, crus, curr, curs, cuss, hiss, hour, huic, ichs, orcs, ouch, ours, rhos, rhus, rich, rocs, rush, shri, sics, sirs, sori, sour, sous, sris, such, uric.

 Words containing the letters "c-h-i-o-r-r-s-s-u"
 

+3 letters: chiaroscuros, curatorships.

 

+4 letters: chiaroscurist.

 

+5 letters: chemosurgeries, chiaroscurists, instructorship.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCIRRHOUS


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

53 43 49 52 52 48 4F 55 53

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ..    .-.    .-.    ....    ---    ..-    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01000011 01001001 01010010 01010010 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#73 &#82 &#82 &#72 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0049 0052 0052 0048 004F 0055 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

533743525242495553

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Rhymes
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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