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DRIVES FAT OXEN

Specialty Definition: DRIVES FAT OXEN

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Drives fat Oxen (Who). Brook, in his Gustavus Vasa, says: "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free," which Dr. Johnson parodied thus: "Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat." (Boswell's Life, year 1784.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DRIVES FAT OXEN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-n-o-r-s-t-v-x"

-2 letters: federations.

-3 letters: federation, transfixed.

-4 letters: advertise, anorexies, antefixes, derivates, desertion, detainers, deviators, dextrines, donatives, endeavors, exertions, exsertion, favorites, feodaries, firestone, foredates, invertase, ordinates, overedits, overtaxed, overtaxes, reinvades, renovated, renovates, resinated, resonated, vexations.

-5 letters: andesite, aneroids, arenites, arointed, arsenide, arsenite, asteroid, astonied, aversion, avodires, avoiders, definers, deforest, denotive, derivate, detainer, detrains, deviants, deviates, deviator, dextrans.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRIVES FAT OXEN


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

44 52 49 56 45 53      46 41 54      4F 58 45 4E

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

        

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

01000100 01010010 01001001 01010110 01000101 01010011 00100000 01000110 01000001 01010100 00100000 01001111 01011000 01000101 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#73 &#86 &#69 &#83 &#32 &#70 &#65 &#84 &#32 &#79 &#88 &#69 &#78

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0049 0056 0045 0053      0046 0041 0054      004F 0058 0045 004E

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

3852435639532403554249583948

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