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Blarney Stone

Definition: Blarney Stone

Blarney Stone

Noun

1. A stone in Blarney Castle in Ireland, said to impart skill in flattery to whoever kisses it.

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Modern Usage: Blarney Stone

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Movie/TV Titles

The Blarney Stone (1933)

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Specialty Definition: Blarney Stone

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The Blarney Stone is a legendary stone built into the battlements of Blarney Castle, near Cork, Ireland. Supposedly, kissing the stone endows the kisser with great eloquence.

The Blarney Stone is supposed to be half of the original Stone of Scone.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Blarney Stone."

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Commercial Usage: Blarney Stone

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Books

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Blarney Stone

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.
 
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per Day

  blarney stone

172

  blarney stone vancouver

6
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Modern Translations: Blarney Stone

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

Turkish

  

öpenlere yağcılık yeteneği veren taş. (various references)

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Ancestral Language Translations: Blarney Stone

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Latin500 BCE-Modern

Petromyzon fluviatilis. (various references)

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Anagrams: Blarney Stone

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-l-n-n-o-r-s-t-y"

-2 letters: resonantly.

-3 letters: bannerets, bannerols, barytones, earnestly, ennoblers, lannerets, roseately.

-4 letters: absenter, absently, annoyers, anolytes, arbelest, baloneys, banneret, bannerol, baronets, baronnes, barytone, bayonets, blarneys, bleaters, bloaters, earlobes, earstone, easterly, enablers, ennobler, ennobles, enterons, entresol, eternals, eyebolts, lanneret, lanterns, neonates, nestable, nonstyle, notables, oleaster, ornately, rentable, resonant, resonate, retables, seaborne, sortable, sortably, stonable, storable, telerans.

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Alternative Orthography: Blarney Stone


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

42 6C 61 72 6E 65 79      53 74 6F 6E 65

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

    

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

01000010 01101100 01100001 01110010 01101110 01100101 01111001 00100000 01010011 01110100 01101111 01101110 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#110 &#101 &#121 &#32 &#83 &#116 &#111 &#110 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 006C 0061 0072 006E 0065 0079      0053 0074 006F 006E 0065

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

3678678480719125386818071

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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