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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dun Cow The dun cow of Dunsmore heath was a savage beast slain by Sir Guy, Earl of Warwick. A huge tusk, probably that of an elephant, is still shown at Harwich Castle as one of the horns of the dun-cow. (See Guy.) The fable is that this cow belonged to a giant, and was kept on Mitchell Fold (middle fold), Shropshire. Its milk was inexhaustible; but one day an old woman who had filled her pail, wanted to fill her sieve also. This so enraged the cow, that she broke loose from the fold and wandered to Dunsmore heath, where she was slain by Guy of Warwick. Isaac Taylor, in his Words and Places (p. 269), says the dun cow is a corruption of the Dena Gau or Danish settlement in the neighbourhood of Warwick. Gau, in German, means region, country. If this explanation is correct, the great achievement of Guy was a victory over the Danes, and taking from them their settlement near Warwick. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Books | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
the book of the dun cow | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-n-o-u-w" | |
-1 letter: wound. | |
-2 letters: down, unco, undo. | |
-3 letters: cod, con, cow, cud, doc, don, dow, dun, duo, nod, now, oud, own, udo, won, wud. | |
-4 letters: do, no, nu, od, on, ow, un, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-n-o-u-w" | |
+1 letter: cutdown. | |
+2 letters: cutdowns. | |
+3 letters: chowhound, countdown, downcourt, touchdown, uncrowded, uncrowned. | |
+4 letters: chowhounds, countdowns, touchdowns. | |
+5 letters: countrywide, woodcutting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 55 4E 43 4F 57 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010101 01001110 00100000 01000011 01001111 01010111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D U N   C O W |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0055 004E 0043 004F 0057 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3855482374957 |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Anagrams 4. Orthography | 5. Bibliography |
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