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BUCKLAW

Specialty Definition: BUCKLAW

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Bucklaw or rather Frank Hayston, lord of Bucklaw, a wealthy nobleman, who marries Lucia di Lammermoor (Lucy Ashton), who had pledged her troth to Edgar, master of Ravenswood. On the wedding-night Lucy murders him, goes mad, and dies. (Donizetti's opera of Lucia di Lammermoor. Sir Walter Scott's Bride of Lammermoor.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: BUCKLAW

Specialty definitions using "BUCKLAW": HaystonRavenswood. (references)

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Anagrams: BUCKLAW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-l-u-w"

-2 letters: baulk, black, caulk.

-3 letters: back, balk, bawl, blaw, buck, bulk, calk, caul, claw, club, lack, luck, wack, walk, wauk, waul.

-4 letters: alb, auk, awl, bal, cab, caw, cub, kab, lab, lac, law, wab.

-5 letters: ab, al, aw, ba, ka, la.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-l-u-w"
 

+4 letters: swashbuckle.

 

+5 letters: swashbuckled, swashbuckler, swashbuckles.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BUCKLAW


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

42 55 43 4B 4C 41 57

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..-    -.-.    -.-    .-..    .-    .--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000010 01010101 01000011 01001011 01001100 01000001 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#85 &#67 &#75 &#76 &#65 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0055 0043 004B 004C 0041 0057

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

36553745463557

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