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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Blue Boar A public-house sign; the cognisance of Richard III. In Leicester is a lane in the parish of St. Nicholas, called the Blue Boar Lane, because Richard slept there the night before the battle of Bosworth Field. "The bristly boar, in infant gore, Wallows beneath the thorny shade." Gray: The Bard. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | BLUE BOAR. A venereal bubo. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLUE BOAR |
| Specialty definitions using "BLUE BOAR": Public-house Signs. (references) |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
blue boar inn | 12 |
blue boar | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: belabour. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-l-o-r-u" | |
-1 letter: barbule, belabor, rubeola. | |
-2 letters: barbel, bauble, boreal, bubale, bulbar, burble, labour, lobber, lubber, rabble, rouble, rubble. | |
-3 letters: abler, babel, babul, baler, barbe, blare, blear, bluer, blurb, bolar, boral, boule, bubal, labor, lobar, roble, ruble, ureal. | |
-4 letters: abbe, able, aero, aloe, babe, babu, bale, barb, bare, bear, beau, blab, blae, bleb, blob, blub, blue, blur. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-b-e-l-o-r-u" | |
+1 letter: belabours. | |
+2 letters: belaboured. | |
+3 letters: belabouring, boatbuilder, nonburnable, redoubtable, redoubtably. | |
+4 letters: blabbermouth, boatbuilders, buffaloberry, equiprobable, unobservable. | |
+5 letters: blabbermouths. | |
| 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 4C 55 45 42 4F 41 52 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01010101 01000101 00100000 01000010 01001111 01000001 01010010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L U E   B O A R |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0055 0045 0042 004F 0041 0052 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36465539236493552 |
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