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DINING ROOM POST

Specialty Definition: DINING ROOM POST

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Slang in 1811

DINING ROOM POST. A mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham letters to the lodgers, and, whilst waiting in the entry for the postage, go into the first room they see open, and rob it. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: DINING ROOM POST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-g-i-i-m-n-n-o-o-o-p-r-s-t"

-4 letters: disporting, disrooting, monitoring, monsignori, motorising, portioning, promotions.

-5 letters: dominions, ignitrons, importing, imposting, indorsing, midpoints, monitions, monsignor, moonports, mortising, motioning, motorings, optioning, pogromist, poisoning, printings, prisoning, promising, promoting, promotion, riposting, sprinting, troponins.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DINING ROOM POST


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

44 49 4E 49 4E 47      52 4F 4F 4D      50 4F 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01001110 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01010010 01001111 01001111 01001101 00100000 01010000 01001111 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#77 &#32 &#80 &#79 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 004E 0049 004E 0047      0052 004F 004F 004D      0050 004F 0053 0054

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

384348434841252494947250495354

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