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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bootless Errand An unprofitable or futile message. The Saxon bot means "reparation"- "overplus to profit"; as "I will give you that to boot"; "what boots it me?" (what does it profit me?). "I sent him Bootless home and weather-beaten back." Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iii. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-l-n-o-o-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-2 letters: aldosterones. | |
-3 letters: aldosterone. | |
-4 letters: adsorbents, banderoles, bandoleers, bartenders, bolsterers, desolaters, desolators, endorsable, loadstones, lodestones, oblateness, reassorted, redbreasts, resonators, restorable, rootedness, slanderers. | |
-5 letters: absenters, adsorbent, adsorbers, alertness, arbelests, banderole, banderols, bandoleer, banterers, barrenest, barstools, bartender, beardless, bolstered, bolsterer, broadness, desalters, desolater, desolates, desolator, detonable, earstones, endorsers, endorsors, endosteal, entresols, leeboards, loadstone, lobstered, lodestars, lodestone, looseners. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4F 4F 54 4C 45 53 53      45 52 52 41 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001111 01001111 01010100 01001100 01000101 01010011 01010011 00100000 01000101 01010010 01010010 01000001 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B O O T L E S S   E R R A N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004F 004F 0054 004C 0045 0053 0053      0045 0052 0052 0041 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)36494954463953532395252354838 |
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