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BEAN-KING

Specialty Definition: BEAN-KING

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Bean-king (The). Rey de Habas, the child appointed to play the part of king on twelfth-night. In France it was at one time customary to hide a bean in a large cake, and he to whom the bean fell, when the cake was distributed, was for the nonce the bean king, to whom all the other guests showed playful reverence. The Greeks used beans for voting by ballot.
Bean-King's festival. Twelfth-night. (See above. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BEAN-KING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-i-k-n-n"

-1 letter: banking, beaning.

-2 letters: baking, baning, benign.

-3 letters: began, begin, being, benni, binge, eking, inane, kiang.

-4 letters: agin, akin, bake, bane, bang, bani, bank, beak, bean, bike, bine, gaen, gain, gane, gibe, gien, gink, kain, kane, kibe, kina, kine, king, nabe, nine.

-5 letters: age, ain, ane, ani, bag, ban, beg, ben, big, bin, eng, gab, gae.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-g-i-k-n-n"
 

+1 letter: embanking.

 

+2 letters: bethanking, blackening, blanketing.

 

+3 letters: bedarkening, blackenings, linebacking.

 

+4 letters: benchmarking, linebackings.

 

+5 letters: benchmarkings, cabinetmaking, mountebanking.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BEAN-KING


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

42 45 41 4E 2D 4B 49 4E 47

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

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

01000010 01000101 01000001 01001110 00101101 01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#65 &#78 &#45 &#75 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0041 004E 002D 004B 0049 004E 0047

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

363935481545434841

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