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Literature | Briareos or Ægeon. A giant with fifty heads and a hundred hands. Homer says the gods called him Briareos, but men called him Ægeon. (Iliad, i. 403.) "Not he who brandished in his hundred hands His fifty swords and fifty shields in fight, Could have surpassed the fierce Argantes' might." Tasso: Jerusalem Delivered, book vii. The Briareus of languages. Cardinal Mezzofanti, who knew fifty-eight different tongues. Byron called him "a walking polyglot; a monster of languages; a Briareus of parts of speech." (1774-1849.) Generally pronounced Bri'-a-ruce. Bold Briareus. Handel (1685-1756). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: BRIAREOS |
| Specialty definitions using "BRIAREOS": Giants. (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. |
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appleseed briareos | 6 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-o-r-r-s" | |
-1 letter: arbores, barrios, brasier, isobare. | |
-2 letters: airers, arbors, ariose, barres, barrio, borers, braise, briars, briers, isobar, orbier, rabies, raiser, rebars, resorb, ribose, rosier, sierra, soarer. | |
-3 letters: abris, airer, arbor, arise, arose, arris, barer, bares, barre, baser, bears, biers, birrs, birse, boars, boras, borer, bores, braes, briar, brier, bries, brios, brose, obias, orris, osier, raise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-o-r-r-s" | |
+1 letter: arborizes. | |
+2 letters: biomarkers, forebrains, harborside, liberators, riverboats. | |
+3 letters: aberrations, arborvitaes, arboviruses, barometries, barricadoes, biographers, bioreactors, bombardiers, brainpowers, carabineros, fiberboards, fibreboards, hibernators, linerboards, reabsorbing, soapberries. | |
+4 letters: abbreviators, bardolatries, boilermakers, brainstormed, brainstormer, carburetions, cerebrations, charbroilers, coralberries, dermabrasion, fingerboards, interrobangs, irresolvable, laboratories, labradorites, loganberries, nonlibraries, obliterators, probationers, reprobations, rowanberries, semiarboreal. | |
+5 letters: banderilleros, boulevardiers, brainstormers, carboniferous, cerebrospinal, decarbonizers, dermabrasions, equilibrators, neurofibromas, observatories, perturbations, procarbazines, rhabdoviruses, salmonberries, subcontraries, subversionary, tubocurarines. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 52 49 41 52 45 4F 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-. .. .- .-. . --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01010010 01001001 01000001 01010010 01000101 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B R I A R E O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 0052 0049 0041 0052 0045 004F 0053 |
| 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)3652433552394953 |
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