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Definition: TO STAVE AND TAIL |
TO STAVE AND TAIL1. In bear baiting, (to stave) to interpose with the staff, doubtless to stop the bear; (to tail) to hold back the dog by the tail. --Nares. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-i-l-n-o-s-t-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: devastation. | |
-4 letters: dealations, lovastatin, tantalates, tantalised, tantalites. | |
-5 letters: antidotal, antidotes, antistate, atonalist, attainted, aventails, dealation, delations, dilatants, donatives, dovetails, insolated, lavations, salivated, saltation, salvation, sanitated, stational, stationed, tantalate, tantalise, tantalite, titanates, totalised, validates, vanadates, vandalise. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 4F      53 54 41 56 45      41 4E 44      54 41 49 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01010100 01000001 01010110 01000101 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T O   S T A V E   A N D   T A I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 004F      0053 0054 0041 0056 0045      0041 004E 0044      0054 0041 0049 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5449253543556392354838254354346 |
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