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CAT'S SLEEP

Specialty Definition: CAT'S SLEEP

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Literature

Cat's Sleep A sham sleep, like that of a cat watching a mouse. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

CAT'S SLEEP. Counterfeit sleep: cats often counterfeiting sleep, to decoy their prey near them, and then suddenly spring on them. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: CAT'S SLEEP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-e-e-l-p-s-s-t"

-2 letters: capelets, celestas, pectases, tapeless.

-3 letters: aspects, capelet, capless, caplets, castles, celesta, ectases, elapses, escapes, pastels, pectase, pesetas, pestles, placets, pleases, selects, staples, teasels.

-4 letters: asleep, aspect, caplet, castes, castle, ceases, cestas, clasps, claspt, clasts, cleats, clepes, easels, eclats, elapse, elates, elects, epacts, escape, etapes, lapses, leases, leasts, palest, palets, passee, passel, pastel, pastes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CAT'S SLEEP


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

43 41 54 27 53      53 4C 45 45 50

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

    

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

01000011 01000001 01010100 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010011 01001100 01000101 01000101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#83 &#76 &#69 &#69 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0027 0053      0053 004C 0045 0045 0050

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

37355495325346393950

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