SCUMBLING

  

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SCUMBLING

Definitions: SCUMBLING

SCUMBLING

Noun

1. The color so laid on. Also used figuratively.

2. In crayon drawing, the use of the stump.

3. A mode of obtaining a softened effect, in painting and drawing, by the application of a thin layer of opaque color to the surface of a painting, or part of the surface, which is too bright in color, or which requires harmonizing.

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Scumble

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SCUMBLING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)



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Crosswords: SCUMBLING

Etymologies containing "SCUMBLING": scumble. (references)

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Anagrams: SCUMBLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-c-g-i-l-m-n-s-u"

-1 letter: muscling.

-2 letters: bluings, bluming, culming.

-3 letters: bluing, busing, climbs, clings, cluing, cubing, cubism, cumins, limbus, linums, lubing, lungis, mucins, muling, musing, muslin, nimbus, sluing.

-4 letters: bungs, climb, cling, clubs, clung, cuing, culms, cumin, glims, iglus, incus, limbs, limns, lings, linum, lungi, lungs, minus, mucin, munis, music, numbs, sling, slung, suing, sulci, using.

-5 letters: bigs, bins, blin, bugs, bums, bung, buns, cigs, club, cubs, culm, gibs, gins, glib, glim, glum, gnus, guls, gums, guns, iglu, libs, limb, limn, ling, lins, lugs, lums, lung, mibs, migs, mils, mugs, muni, muns, nibs, nils, nims, nubs, numb, scum, sign, sing, slim, slub, slug, slum, smug, snib, snub, snug, sung, unci.

 Words containing the letters "b-c-g-i-l-m-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: crumblings.

 

+3 letters: unscrambling.

 

+5 letters: macroglobulins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SCUMBLING


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

53 43 55 4D 42 4C 49 4E 47

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 01010101 01001101 01000010 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#67 &#85 &#77 &#66 &#76 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0043 0055 004D 0042 004C 0049 004E 0047

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

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

533755473646434841

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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