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BESTRAUGHT

Definition: BESTRAUGHT

BESTRAUGHT

Adjective

1. Out of one's senses; distracted; mad.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "BESTRAUGHT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Note: Bestraught \Be*straught"\, adjective. [Prefix be- straught; probably here used for distraught.]. (Websters 1913)

 

Anagrams: BESTRAUGHT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-g-h-r-s-t-t-u"

-2 letters: abutters, barghest, barguest, bearhugs, retaught, turbeths.

-3 letters: abutter, arbutes, baguets, bathers, batters, battues, bearhug, berthas, breaths, bursate, butters, gathers, gutters, hagbuts, hatters, shatter, shutter, stature, tarbush, targets, threats, turbeth.

-4 letters: abuser, arbute, argues, astute, augers, aughts, baguet, barest, barges, basher, baster, bather, bathes, batter, battue, beauts, bertha, berths, bettas, breast, breath, brughs, brutes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BESTRAUGHT


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

42 45 53 54 52 41 55 47 48 54

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 01000101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010101 01000111 01001000 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#69 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#65 &#85 &#71 &#72 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0045 0053 0054 0052 0041 0055 0047 0048 0054

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

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

36395354523555414254

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3. Orthography
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