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DOUSTERSWIVEL

Specialty Definition: DOUSTERSWIVEL

DomainDefinition

Literature

Dousterswivel A German swindler, who obtains money under the promise of finding buried wealth by a divining rod. (Scott: Antiquary.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DOUSTERSWIVEL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-i-l-o-r-s-s-t-u-v-w"

-2 letters: outdelivers.

-3 letters: outdeliver, overissued, redissolve, servitudes, virtueless, vitreouses.

-4 letters: delousers, delusters, desilvers, diestrous, dissolute, dissolver, dolerites, drowsiest, evildoers, ourselves, outdrives, outlivers, outserved, outserves, outsiders, overedits, overissue, oversides, resolutes, restudies, servitude, solitudes, storewide, troiluses, trueloves.

-5 letters: delivers, delouser, delouses, delusive, deluster, desilver, desirous, devisers, devisors, devouter, diesters, diestrus, diluters, dilutors, disserve, dissever, dissolve, diureses, dolerite.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DOUSTERSWIVEL


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

44 4F 55 53 54 45 52 53 57 49 56 45 4C

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)

01000100 01001111 01010101 01010011 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010011 01010111 01001001 01010110 01000101 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#83 &#87 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 004F 0055 0053 0054 0045 0052 0053 0057 0049 0056 0045 004C

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

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

38495553543952535743563946

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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