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BOOTLESS ERRAND

Specialty Definition: BOOTLESS ERRAND

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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.

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

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Anagrams: BOOTLESS ERRAND

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BOOTLESS ERRAND


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)

    

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)

&#66 &#79 &#79 &#84 &#76 &#69 &#83 &#83 &#32 &#69 &#82 &#82 &#65 &#78 &#68

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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