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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Dry Sea (A). A sandy desert. The camel is the ship of the desert. We read of the Persian sea of sand. "The see that men slepen the gravely see, that is alle gravelle and sond with outen only drope of watre." - Mandeville:Travels. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
a bone from a dry sea | 3 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: derays. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: dares, dears, deary, deray, drays, dyers, eyras, rased, rayed, reads, ready, resay, sayer, yards, years. | |
-2 letters: aery, ares, arse, ayes, dare, days, dear, deys, dray, drys, dyer, dyes, ears, easy, eras, eyas, eyra, rads, rase, rays, read, reds, ryas, ryes, sade, sard, sear, sera, yard, yare, year, yeas. | |
-3 letters: ads, are, ars, aye. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: daresay, darkeys, dasyure, defrays, dryades, hydrase, redbays, sprayed, strayed. | |
+2 letters: beeyards, dasyures, daymares, decayers, delayers, dialyser, drayages, estrayed, hayrides, hydrases, hydrates, keycards, midyears, reynards, sacredly, saddlery, yardages, yearends. | |
+3 letters: adversary, adversely, adversity, aerodynes, assuredly, ayurvedas, bayadeers, bayaderes, boneyards, bystander, clepsydra, copyreads, daybreaks, daydreams, deeryards, defrayals, defrayers, desirably, dialysers, dialyzers, doomsayer, driveways, drysalter, dyarchies, foreyards, hydrolase, kaleyards, keyboards, mydriases, paralysed, parsleyed, paygrades, pederasty, pyodermas, redisplay, residuary, resprayed, secondary, sedentary, shadberry, skylarked, steelyard, underlays, underpays, unsprayed, vineyards, yesterday. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 52 59      53 45 41 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01010010 01011001 00100000 01010011 01000101 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D R Y   S E A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0052 0059      0053 0045 0041 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3852592533935 |
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