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Definition: BEWIT |
BEWITNoun1. A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs. |
Etymology: Bewit \Bew"it\, noun. [Compare to Old French buie bond, chain, from the Latin expression boja neck collar, fetter. Compare to Buoy.]. (Websters 1913) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BEWIT": bewitch, bewitched, bewitcheries, bewitchery, bewitches, bewitching, bewitchingly, bewitchment, bewitchments. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "BEWIT" (pronounced 'Bew"it'): Accredit, Adhibit, Adit, Albeit, Cohabit, Cohibit, Davit, Decrepit, Delimit, Dishabit, Disherit, Disinherit, Dispirit, Disspirit, Edit, Effrontit, Evomit, Howbeit, illicit, Immerit, implicit, inexplicit, inhibit, inspirit, Interposit, Intervisit, Introit, Juxtaposit, Kinit, licit, Overmerit, Petit, Pinxit, Pipit, Placit, Posit, Postposit, Prelimit, Premerit, Prohibit, Promerit, redeposit, Reexhibit, Reinhabit, Reinspirit, reposit, Retraxit, revisit, Seposit, solicit. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-t-w" | |
-1 letter: bite, wite. | |
-2 letters: bet, bit, tew, tie, web, wet, wit. | |
-3 letters: be, bi, et, it, ti, we. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-t-w" | |
+1 letter: bawtie. | |
+2 letters: bawties, betwixt, bewitch, howbeit, website. | |
+3 letters: bawdiest, bitewing, blowiest, bobwhite, webbiest, websites, wombiest, writable. | |
+4 letters: bestowing, bewitched, bewitches, bitewings, blowsiest, blowziest, bobwhites, brawliest, brawniest, browniest, sawtimber, subwriter, twinberry, wabbliest, wambliest, waterbird, whitebait, wobbliest. | |
+5 letters: bestrewing, bestrowing, bewitchery, bewitching, bilgewater, billowiest, bitterweed, dumbwaiter, sawtimbers, sewability, subwriters, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, switchable, timberwork, waterbirds, wattlebird, whitebaits, whitebeard, whiteboard, wildebeest. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 45 57 49 54 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... . .--. .. - |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01000101 01010111 01001001 01010100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B E W I T |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0045 0057 0049 0054 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3639574354 |
| 1. Definition 2. Derivations 3. Rhymes 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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