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ABRAY

Definition: ABRAY

ABRAY

Verb

1. See Abraid.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "ABRAY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)

Note: Abray \A*bray"\, verb. [A false form from the preterit abraid, abrayde.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: ABRAY

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

Pig Latin

  

abrayay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ABRAY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-r-y"

-1 letter: bray, raya.

-2 letters: aba, aby, arb, baa, bar, bay, bra, ray, rya, yar.

-3 letters: aa, ab, ar, ay, ba, by, ya.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-r-y"
 

+1 letter: ambary, baryta, bayard.

 

+2 letters: barytas, bayards, ratably.

 

+3 letters: aborally, adorably, arguably, backyard, balladry, ballyrag, barnyard, barratry, basilary, bastardy, bayadeer, bayadere, bearably, betrayal, boatyard, capybara, carbamyl, carbaryl, chambray, daybreak, grayback, rateably, readably, rubaiyat, variably.

 

+4 letters: aberrancy, admirably, agreeably, alterably, arability, arbitrary, bacillary, backyards, ballyrags, barbarity, barnyards, bastardly, bayadeers, bayaderes, betrayals, boatyards, breakaway, capybaras, carbamyls, carbaryls, carryback, chambrays, daybreaks, favorably, grandbaby, graybacks, graybeard, guayabera, myrobalan, repayable, syllabary, tractably.

 

+5 letters: aberrantly, abnormally, abrasively, absorbancy, abstractly, affordably, ambulatory, antibaryon, approvably, arboreally, backwardly, ballplayer, bardolatry, binaurally, breakaways, breaksaway, carrybacks, charitably, comparably, defrayable, graybeards, guayaberas, inarguably, invariably, laboratory, measurably, myrobalans, pardonably, reasonably, remarkably, unarguably, unbearably, vocabulary.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABRAY


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

41 42 52 41 59

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

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

=

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)

01000001 01000010 01010010 01000001 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#82 &#65 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0052 0041 0059

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

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

3536523559

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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