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DEVIL'S CANDLE

Specialty Definition: DEVIL'S CANDLE

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Devil's Candle So the Arabs call the mandrake, from its shining appearance at night. (Richardson.)
"Those hellish fires that light
The mandrake's charnel leaves at night."
T. Moore: Fire Worshippers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DEVIL'S CANDLE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-d-d-e-e-i-l-l-n-s-v"

-4 letters: deadlines, deviances, landslide, snivelled, valencies.

-5 letters: anvilled, ascended, cadelles, cavilled, cedillas, cleansed, deadline, declined, declines, delaines, deviance, devilled, enclaves, enslaved, islanded, landside, landslid, licensed, nacelles, salience, silenced, sniveled, valences, vendaces.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DEVIL'S CANDLE


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

44 45 56 49 4C 27 53      43 41 4E 44 4C 45

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

    

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

01000100 01000101 01010110 01001001 01001100 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000011 01000001 01001110 01000100 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#69 &#86 &#73 &#76 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0045 0056 0049 004C 0027 0053      0043 0041 004E 0044 004C 0045

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

38395643469532373548384639

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