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DROP SERENE

Specialty Definition: DROP SERENE

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Drop Serene (gutta serena). An old name for amaurosis. It was at one time thought that a transparent, watery humour, distilling on the optic nerve, would produce blindness without changing the appearance of the eye.
"So thick a `drop serene' hath quenched these
Orbs."Milton: Paradise Lost, iii. 25. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DROP SERENE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-e-n-o-p-r-r-s"

-1 letter: ponderers, responder.

-2 letters: endorsee, endorser, ponderer, preeners, reopened.

-3 letters: deepens, depones, deposer, dorpers, droners, endorse, needers, openers, perrons, ponders, preened, preener, renders, reopens, reposed, reposer, reredos, respond, serener, sneered, sneerer, speeder, speered, spender, spondee.

-4 letters: deepen, deeper, denser, depone, depose, donees, dopers, dorper, dorser, droner, drones, enders, epodes, erodes, needer, opened, opener, orders, pedros.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-e-e-n-o-p-r-r-s"
 

+1 letter: overspender, precensored.

 

+2 letters: derepression, overspenders.

 

+3 letters: derepressions, groundskeeper, overresponded, preponderates, redemptioners, underexposure.

 

+4 letters: correspondence, groundskeepers, preponderances, underexposures.

 

+5 letters: correspondences, overrepresented, preponderancies, superheterodyne.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DROP SERENE


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

44 52 4F 50      53 45 52 45 4E 45

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

    

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

01000100 01010010 01001111 01010000 00100000 01010011 01000101 01010010 01000101 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#82 &#69 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 004F 0050      0053 0045 0052 0045 004E 0045

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

385249502533952394839

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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