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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dowsabell Daughter of Cassamen, a knight of Arden, who fell in love with a shepherd. The two make love with Arcadian simplicity, and vow eternal fidelity. "With that she bent her snow-white knee, Down by the shepherd kneeléd she, And him she sweetly kist. With that the shepherd whooped for joy Quoth he, `There's never shepherd boy That ever was so blist.' " Drayton: Dowsabell (a ballad). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-l-l-o-s-w" | |
-1 letter: dowsabel, sallowed. | |
-2 letters: albedos, allowed, bellows, blowsed, dowable, losable, sowable, waldoes. | |
-3 letters: abodes, adobes, albedo, aldols, aldose, allods, allows, balled, bawled, bellow, belows, blades, blawed, blowed, bolled, bowels, bowled, bowsed, dalles, doable, doblas, dowels, dwells, elbows, labels, ladles, sallow, slowed, walled, wealds, woalds. | |
-4 letters: ables, abode, adobe, aldol, allod, allow, aloes, awols, balds, baled. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-l-l-o-s-w" | |
+1 letter: snowballed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 4F 57 53 41 42 45 4C 4C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. --- .--. ... .- -... . .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001111 01010111 01010011 01000001 01000010 01000101 01001100 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D O W S A B E L L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 004F 0057 0053 0041 0042 0045 004C 004C |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)384957533536394646 |
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