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CATAPASM

Definition: CATAPASM

CATAPASM

Noun

1. A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Catapasm \Cat"a*pasm\, noun. [from Greek expression, from to besprinkle; kata` down, wholly to strew, or sprinkle.]. (Websters 1913)

Rhyming with "CATAPASM"

Words rhyming with "CATAPASM" (pronounced 'Cat"a*pasm'): Diapasm, Empasm, spasm. (additional references)

Anagrams: CATAPASM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-m-p-s-t"
	-1 letter: patacas.
	-2 letters: pataca.
	-3 letters: ataps, atmas, camas, camps, pacas, pacts, pasta, scamp, stamp, tamps, tapas.
	-4 letters: acta, acts, amas, amps, atap, atma, camp, cams, caps, casa, cast, cats, macs, maps, mast, mats, paca, pacs, pact, pams, past, pats, samp, scam, scat, spam, spat, tamp, tams, tapa, taps.
	-5 letters: aas, act, ama, amp, apt, asp, cam.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-m-p-s-t"
	+1 letter: cataplasm.
	+2 letters: cataplasms.
	+3 letters: metacarpals.
	+4 letters: caprolactams, mycoplasmata.
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Alternative Orthography: CATAPASM

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

43 41 54 41 50 41 53 4D

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)

01000011 01000001 01010100 01000001 01010000 01000001 01010011 01001101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#65 &#84 &#65 &#80 &#65 &#83 &#77

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0041 0054 0041 0050 0041 0053 004D

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

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

3735543550355347

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography

5. Bibliography

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