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BACBUC

Specialty Definition: BACBUC

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Bacbuc The Holy Bottle, and also the priestess of the Holy Bottle, the oracle of Lantern-land consulted by Panurge on the momentous question whether or not he ought to marry. The Holy Bottle answered with a click like the noise made by a glass snapping. Bacbuc told Panurge the noise meant trinc (drink), and that was the response, the most direct and positive ever given by the oracle. Panurge might interpret it as he liked, the obscurity would always save the oracle.
So Pic or Glück (say I) or neither,
Or both, for aught I care, or either;
More undecided than Bacbuc,
Here's heads for Pic, and tails for Glück. E.C.B. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: BACBUC

Specialty definitions using "BACBUC": BaboucOracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc. (references)

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Anagrams: BACBUC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-c-c-u"

-2 letters: babu.

-3 letters: bub, cab, cub.

-4 letters: ab, ba.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BACBUC


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

42 41 43 42 55 43

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)

01000010 01000001 01000011 01000010 01010101 01000011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0041 0043 0042 0055 0043

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

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

363537365537

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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