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AGAINST THE HAIR

Definition: AGAINST THE HAIR

AGAINST THE HAIR

1. In a rough and disagreeable manner; against the grain. [Obs.] ``You go against the hair of your professions.'' --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: AGAINST THE HAIR

English words defined with "AGAINST THE HAIR": bootboysskinheads. (references)
Specialty definitions using "AGAINST THE HAIR": EIGHTHHair, HairssuccessY'mir. (references)

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Modern Translations: AGAINST THE HAIR

Language Translations for "AGAINST THE HAIR"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

szőr ellenében (against the nap), szőr ellen, kedve ellenére vkinek. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

againstay ethay airhay

   

Romanian

  

în rãspãr (against the grain). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

против шерсти (against the grain). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: AGAINST THE HAIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-e-g-h-h-i-i-n-r-s-t-t"

-3 letters: ingratiates.

-4 letters: hesitating, ingratiate, nightshirt, shanghaier, shattering, straighten.

-5 letters: attainers, gnathites, grainiest, hatterias, hiraganas, ingathers, insatiate, instigate, iterating, reattains, rehashing, resitting, restating, retasting, rhatanies, sanitaria, satiating, seriating, sheathing, striating, tearstain, thirsting, thrashing, threating, threshing, trithings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: AGAINST THE HAIR


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

41 47 41 49 4E 53 54      54 48 45      48 41 49 52

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

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01000111 01000001 01001001 01001110 01010011 01010100 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#71 &#65 &#73 &#78 &#83 &#84 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0047 0041 0049 004E 0053 0054      0054 0048 0045      0048 0041 0049 0052

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

354135434853542544239242354352

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INDEX

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


  

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