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Date "CACUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"CACUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: accuse, cactus, cakes, caucus, circus. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cacus A famous robber, represented as three-headed, and vomiting flames. He lived in Italy, and was strangled by Hercules. Sancho Panza says of the Lord Rinaldô and his friends, "They are greater thieves than Cacus." (Don Quixote.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
On the Aventine Hill in Italy, Cacus stole some of the cattle stolen from Geryon as the thief, Heracles, slept. He made the cattle walk backwards so they left no trail. Heracles drove his remaining cattle past a cave, where Cacus was hiding the stolen ones, and they began calling out to each other. Heracles killed Cacus. Alternatively, Caca, Cacus' sister, told Heracles where he was.
In ancient Roman mythology, Cacus ("bad") was a fire god. He was later demoted to the giant described above. According to the Romans, after Hercules (the Roman Heracles) killed Cacus, he founded an altar where later the Forum Boarium, the cattle market, was held.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cacus."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Stealing | Thievishness, rapacity, kleptomania, Alsatia, den of Cacus, den of thieves. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CACUS |
| Specialty definitions using "CACUS": Giants. (references) |
Expression using "CACUS": den of Cacus. Additional references. | |
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| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cacus | 4 |
black cacus congressional | 3 |
black cacus | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-s-u" | |
-2 letters: sac, sau. | |
-3 letters: as, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-s-u" | |
+1 letter: accuse, cactus, caucus, succah, yuccas. | |
+2 letters: accrues, accurst, accusal, accused, accuser, accuses, cachous, caustic, saccule, sacculi, succahs, succuba. | |
+3 letters: accounts, accruals, accursed, accusals, accusant, accusers, accusing, accustom, aciculas, acoustic, bacchius, caciques, cactuses, caduceus, caducous, caesuric, calciums, calculus, capsicum, capuches, caraculs, catchups, catechus, caucused, caucuses, caudices, caustics, chubasco, crackups, crucians, cupcakes, curacaos, curacies, curacoas, curcumas, currachs, cutbacks, feluccas, occlusal, pachucos, reaccuse, rucksack, saccular, saccules, sacculus, succubae, succubas. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 43 55 53 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- -.-. ..- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01000011 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A C U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0043 0055 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)3735375553 |
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