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ALLFOURS

Definition: ALLFOURS

ALLFOURS

1. A game at cards, called "High, Low, Jack, and the Game."

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Synonyms within Context: ALLFOURS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Anagrams: ALLFOURS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r-s-u"

-1 letter: florals.

-2 letters: floral, floras, flours, fluors, safrol.

-3 letters: afoul, falls, farls, faros, flora, flour, fluor, foals, fouls, fours, fulls, furls, loafs, loral, lours, ollas, orals, rolfs, rolls, salol, sofar, solar, sulfa, sulfo, sural.

-4 letters: alls, also, arfs, fall, farl, faro, flus, foal, fora, foul, four, full, furl, furs, lars, loaf, lour, oafs, oars, olla.

 Words containing the letters "a-f-l-l-o-r-s-u"
 

+4 letters: cauliflowers, flocculators, sulfonylurea.

 

+5 letters: flirtatiously, fluorouracils, metalliferous, sulfonylureas.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ALLFOURS


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

41 4C 4C 46 4F 55 52 53

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

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

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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 01001100 01001100 01000110 01001111 01010101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#76 &#76 &#70 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 004C 004C 0046 004F 0055 0052 0053

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

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

3546464049555253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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