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ARIMASPIANS

Date "ARIMASPIANS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)


Specialty Definition: ARIMASPIANS

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Arimaspians A one-eyed people of Scythia, who adorned their hair with gold. They were constantly at war with the gryphons who guarded the gold mines.
"As when a gryphon, through the wilderness ...
Pursues the Arimaspian, who by stealth
Had from his wakeful custody purloined
The guarded gold."
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 943.6). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: ARIMASPIANS

Specialty definitions using "ARIMASPIANS": Griffon, Griffen. (references)

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Anagrams: ARIMASPIANS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-a-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-s"

-2 letters: apiarians, apimanias.

-3 letters: apiarian, apimania, aspirins, paisanas, pianisms, sinapism.

-4 letters: aspirin, asramas, impairs, marinas, paisana, paisans, panamas, parians, pianism, piranas, raisins, rapinis, saimins, samaras, sampans, samsara, simians, sprains.

-5 letters: airman, amarna, animas, animis, asanas, asrama, impair, inarms, manias, marina, nairas, paisan, paisas, panama, parian, passim, pirana, praams, primas, prisms, raisin, rapini, saimin, samara, sampan.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-a-i-i-m-n-p-r-s-s"
 

+5 letters: supranationalism.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ARIMASPIANS


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

41 52 49 4D 41 53 50 49 41 4E 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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000001 01010010 01001001 01001101 01000001 01010011 01010000 01001001 01000001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#73 &#77 &#65 &#83 &#80 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0049 004D 0041 0053 0050 0049 0041 004E 0053

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

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

3552434735535043354853

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2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
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