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COMAZANTS

Specialty Definition: COMAZANTS

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Comazants Called St. Elmo fires by the French, Castor and Pollux by the Romans. A celestial light seen occasionally to play round mast-heads, etc. (Latin, coma, hair.) Virgil makes good use of this phenomenon while Æneas is hesitating whether to leave burning Troy or not:
"Ecce levis summo de vertice visus Iuli
Fundere lumen apex, tractuque innoxia mo
Lambere flamma comas, et circum tempora pasci
Nos, pavidi trepidare metu, crinemque flagrantem
Excutere, et sanctos restinguere fontibus ignes."
When old Anchises interferes, and a falling star is interpreted to mean that Jupiter will lead them forth securely. (Æneid, ii. 682, etc.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: COMAZANTS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-n-o-s-t-z"

-1 letter: zacatons.

-2 letters: amazons, sacaton, zacaton.

-3 letters: amazon, atmans, cantos, cotans, macons, manats, mantas, mascon, mascot, matzas, matzos, octans, sancta, socman, somata, sonata, stanza, tomans.

-4 letters: anoas, antas, ascot, atman, atmas, atoms, azans, azons, camas, canso, canst, canto, cants, coast, coats, comas, costa, cotan, macon, manas, manat, manos, manta, mason, matza, matzo, moans, moats, monas.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-n-o-s-t-z"
 

+4 letters: racemizations.

 

+5 letters: mechanizations, musicalization, schematization.

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

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Alternative Orthography: COMAZANTS


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

43 4F 4D 41 5A 41 4E 54 53

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 01001111 01001101 01000001 01011010 01000001 01001110 01010100 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#79 &#77 &#65 &#90 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 004F 004D 0041 005A 0041 004E 0054 0053

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

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

374947356035485453

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