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CURTANA

Definition: CURTANA

CURTANA

Noun

1. The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

"CURTANA" is a common misspelling or typo for: Certain, Currant, Curtain, Curtained.


Specialty Definition: CURTANA

DomainDefinition

Literature

Curtana The sword of Edward the Confessor, which, having no point, was the emblem of mercy. The royal sword of England was so called to the reign of Henry III.
"But when Curtana will not do the deed,
You lay the pointless clergy-weapon by,
And to the laws, your sword of justice, fly."
Dryden: Hind and Panther, part ii. 419-21. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: CURTANA

English words defined with "CURTANA": Curtein. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CURTANA": O'gier the DaneSword-makers. (references)

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Rhyming with "CURTANA"

Words rhyming with "CURTANA" (pronounced 'Cur*ta"na'): Abuna, Achatina, Alcanna, Alhenna, Alumna, Amphirhina, Amphisbaena, Angina, Anna, Anona, Antenna, arena, Avena, Avifauna, Banana, Becuna, BELLADONNA, Bellona, Carina, Casuarina, Catena, Cavatina, Concertina, Coquina, Cromorna, Czarevna, Czarina, Damiana, DIANA, Echidna, Erythrina, Galena, Gehenna, Gena, Globigerina, Glucina, Hemina, henna, Hosanna, HYENA, iguana, Krishna, lacuna, Lena, Levana, Limacina, Linguatulina, Littorina, Luna, Madonna. (additional references)

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Anagrams: CURTANA

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-n-r-t-u"

-2 letters: antra, carat, ratan, ruana.

-3 letters: acta, anta, aunt, aura, cant, carn, cart, curn, curt, narc, rant, runt, tarn, tuna, turn.

-4 letters: act, ana, ant, arc, art, can, car, cat, cur, cut, nut, ran, rat, run, rut, tan, tar, tau, tun, urn, uta.

-5 letters: aa, an, ar, at, na, nu, ta, un, ut.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-n-r-t-u"
 

+2 letters: centaurea, sanctuary.

 

+3 letters: aeronautic, cautionary, centaureas, connatural, crustacean, inaccurate, pancratium, reacquaint, retinacula, surfactant, tentacular, ultraclean, undramatic.

 

+4 letters: aeronautics, anfractuous, annunciator, antinuclear, astronautic, calumniator, candidature, contractual, crustaceans, intraocular, manufactory, manufacture, matriculant, pancratiums, parachuting, paramountcy, puritanical, reacquaints, rectangular, sanctuaries, surfactants, transuranic, uncastrated, unpractical, untraceable.

 

+5 letters: accurateness, aeronautical, agranulocyte, annunciators, annunciatory, anticultural, appurtenance, articulating, articulation, astronautics, avuncularity, backcourtman, calumniators, candidatures, cantankerous, caricaturing, caterwauling, clairaudient, confabulator, congratulate, connaturally, constabulary, contrapuntal, cosurfactant, curarization, extranuclear, hallucinator, inaccurately, inarticulacy, inarticulate, manufactured, manufacturer, manufactures, matriculants, naturalistic, naturopathic, reacquainted, subantarctic, sugarcoating, tabernacular, transductant, transhumance, transuranics, unattractive, uncalibrated, uncapturable, uncharitable, uncharitably.

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

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Alternative Orthography: CURTANA


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

43 55 52 54 41 4E 41

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 01010101 01010010 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#85 &#82 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#65

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 0055 0052 0054 0041 004E 0041

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

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

37555254354835

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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