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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cow's Tail "Always behind, like a cow's tail." "Tanquam coda vituli." (Petronius.) The cow knows not the worth of her tail till she loses it, and is troubled with flies, which her tail brushed off. "What we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value." Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, iv.1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: COW'S TAIL |
| Specialty definitions using "COW'S TAIL": Presentable. (references) |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place. In Boorioboola-Gha a man is presentable on occasions of ceremony if he have his abdomen painted a bright blue and wear a cow's tail; in New York he may, if it please him, omit the paint, but after sunset he must wear two tails made of the wool of a sheep and dyed black. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "'-a-c-i-l-o-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: citolas, stoical. | |
-3 letters: citola, coatis, coital, costal, scotia, social, ticals. | |
-4 letters: alist, altos, ascot, awols, calos, clast, claws, clits, clots, coals, coast, coati, coats, coils, colas, colts, costa, cowls, iotas, laics, litas, lotas, lotic, octal, ostia, salic, scowl, stoai, stoic, swail, tacos, tails, talcs, tical, toils, tolas, wails, waist, waits, wilco, wilts. | |
-5 letters: acts. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 4F 57 27 53 54 41 49 4C |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01001111 01010111 00100111 01010011 00100000 01010100 01000001 01001001 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C O W ' S   T A I L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 004F 0057 0027 0053 0054 0041 0049 004C |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)374957953254354346 |
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