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ARQUEBUSE

Definition: ARQUEBUSE

ARQUEBUSE

Noun

1. A sort of hand gun or firearm a contrivance answering to a trigger, by which the burning match was applied. The musket was a later invention.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "ARQUEBUSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Crosswords: ARQUEBUSE

Non-English Usage: "ARQUEBUSE" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (arquebus).

Frequency of Internet Keywords: ARQUEBUSE

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
arquebuse	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations: ARQUEBUSE

Derivations
	Words beginning with "ARQUEBUSE": arquebuses. (additional references)
	Words containing "ARQUEBUSE": harquebuses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Anagrams: ARQUEBUSE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-q-r-s-u-u"
	-1 letter: arquebus, usquebae.
	-2 letters: barques, brusque, bureaus, quaeres, queuers.
	-3 letters: abuser, aureus, barque, basque, bureau, bursae, quaere, queers, queuer, queues, reseau, square, uraeus, urease.
	-4 letters: abuse, aures, bares, baser, bears, beaus, beers, braes, brees, buras, bursa, burse, erase, quare, queer, queue, rebus, reuse, rubes, rubus, saber, sabre, saree, squab, suber, urase, ureas, ursae, usque.
	-5 letters: arbs.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-q-r-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: arquebuses.
	+2 letters: harquebuses.
	+3 letters: harquebusier.
	+4 letters: harquebusiers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: ARQUEBUSE

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

41 52 51 55 45 42 55 53 45

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 01010010 01010001 01010101 01000101 01000010 01010101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#82 &#81 &#85 &#69 &#66 &#85 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0052 0051 0055 0045 0042 0055 0053 0045

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

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

355251553936555339

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Derivations

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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