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ASPERGILLUM

Definition: ASPERGILLUM

ASPERGILLUM

Noun

1. See Wateringpot shell.

2. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: ASPERGILLUM

English words defined with "ASPERGILLUM": AspergilliformWatering pot. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ASPERGILLUM": Holy Water Sprinkler. (references)
Non-English Usage: "ASPERGILLUM" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Hungarian (asperges, aspergillum, aspergilla).

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Image Slideshow: ASPERGILLUM

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ASPERGILLUM

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

aspergillum

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ASPERGILLUM

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

Arabic 

  

‏المنضحة (hectograph). (various references)

   

German

  

weihwasserwedel. (various references)

   

Italian

  

aspersorio. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aspergillumay

   

Romanian

  

sfeştoc, pãmãtuf (shaving brush, tuft, whisk). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

hisopo (aspersorium, hyssop). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kutsal su kabı (aspergill, sprinkler, stoup). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

кропило. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: ASPERGILLUM

Derivations

Words beginning with "ASPERGILLUM": aspergillums. (additional references)


Misspellings

"ASPERGILLUM" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ackergill, aspergil, aspergillium. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ASPERGILLUM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-l-l-m-p-r-s-u"

-2 letters: guerillas, pillagers, plumerias, pluralism, umpirages.

-3 letters: earplugs, epigrams, galliums, glimpser, glumpier, graupels, gremials, guerilla, impalers, impearls, legalism, lempiras, millages, palliums, perillas, pillager, pillages, plaguers, plumages, plumeria, primages, primulas, spillage, spirulae, spurgall, umpirage.

-4 letters: alliums, allures, ampules, earplug, epigram, gallies, gallium, gillers, gisarme, glaires, glimpse, grampus, graupel, gremial, grilles, guimpes, gullies, gulpers, gulpier, illumes.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-l-l-m-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: aspergillums.

 

+5 letters: pyrometallurgies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ASPERGILLUM


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

41 53 50 45 52 47 49 4C 4C 55 4D

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 01010011 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000111 01001001 01001100 01001100 01010101 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#83 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#71 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#85 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0053 0050 0045 0052 0047 0049 004C 004C 0055 004D

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

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

3553503952414346465547

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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