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Date "YEZD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Yezd (1 syl.). Chief residence of the Fire-worshippers. Stephen says they have kept the sacred fire alight above 3,000 years, without suffering it to go out for a second. The sacred fire is on the mountain Ater Quedah (Mansion of the Fire), and he is deemed unfortunate who dies away from the mountain. (Persia.) "From Yezd's eternal `Mansion of the Fire,' Where aged saints in dreams of heaven expire." Thomas Moore: Laila Rookh, pt. i. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-y-z" | |
-1 letter: dey, dye, zed. | |
-2 letters: de, ed, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-y-z" | |
+2 letters: zydeco. | |
+3 letters: dazedly, dialyze, mazedly, zedoary, zydecos. | |
+4 letters: amazedly, analyzed, cyclized, denazify, dialyzed, dialyzer, dialyzes, kyanized, stylized. | |
+5 letters: autolyzed, catalyzed, crazyweed, dialyzate, dialyzers, hemolyzed, hybridize, hydrazide, hydrazine, hydrolyze, lyricized, paralyzed, pyrolized, pyrolyzed, zemindary. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)59 45 5A 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.--. . --.. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011001 01000101 01011010 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)Y E Z D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0059 0045 005A 0044 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)59396038 |
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