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DEVIL'S DUST

Specialty Definition: DEVIL'S DUST

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Devil's Dust Old rags torn up by a machine called the "devil," and made into shoddy by gum and pressure. Mr. Ferrand brought the subject before Parliament, March 4th, 1842. It is so called from the dishonesty and falsehood which it covers. (Latimer's Sermons.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DEVIL'S DUST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-d-d-e-i-l-s-s-t-u-v"

-3 letters: duelists, studdies.

-4 letters: delists, diluted, dilutes, disused, divests, duelist, studdie, studied, studies, tissued, tussive, tussled.

-5 letters: deists, delist, desist, devils, dilute, dissed, disuse, divest, dulses, dusted, duties, duvets, idlest, islets, issued, istles, listed, livest, lusted, sidled, sidles, silted, slides, sliest, stiles, sudsed, suited, suites, tildes, tissue, tussle, veldts, vilest.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEVIL'S DUST


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

44 45 56 49 4C 27 53      44 55 53 54

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

    

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

01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01001100 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000100 01010101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#86 &#73 &#76 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#68 &#85 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0056 0049 004C 0027 0053      0044 0055 0053 0054

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

3839564346953238555354

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