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DEATH UNDER SHIELD

Specialty Definition: DEATH UNDER SHIELD

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Death under Shield Death in battle.
"Her imagination had been familiarised with wild and bloody events ... and had been trained up to consider an honourable `death under shield' (as that in a field of battle was termed) a desirable termination to the life of a warrior." - Sir W. Scott:The Betrothed, chap. 6. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DEATH UNDER SHIELD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-e-h-h-i-l-n-r-s-t-u"

-4 letters: disheartened, thunderheads.

-5 letters: desiderated, dunderheads, headhunters, heulandites, neutralised, thunderhead, unhealthier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEATH UNDER SHIELD


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

44 45 41 54 48      55 4E 44 45 52      53 48 49 45 4C 44

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

        

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

01000100 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 00100000 01010101 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010011 01001000 01001001 01000101 01001100 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#32 &#85 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#73 &#69 &#76 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0041 0054 0048      0055 004E 0044 0045 0052      0053 0048 0049 0045 004C 0044

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

3839355442255483839522534243394638

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