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DUNDREARY

Date "DUNDREARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1869. (references)


Specialty Definition: DUNDREARY

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Literature

Dundreary (Lord) (3syl.). The impersonation of a good-natured, indolent, blundering, empty-headed swell. The chief character in Tom Taylor's dramatic piece called Our American Cousin. Mr. Sothern created the character of Lord Dundreary by the power of his conception and the genius of his acting. (See Brother Sam.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: DUNDREARY

Specialty definitions using "DUNDREARY": Brother Sam. (references)

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Image Slideshow: DUNDREARY

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Anagrams: DUNDREARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-n-r-r-u-y"

-2 letters: daunder, reynard, unready.

-3 letters: dander, darned, darner, denary, drayed, dreary, durned, errand, rudder, undead, undyed, unread, yarded, yarned, yarner.

-4 letters: adder, dandy, dared, darer, deary, denar, deray, derry, dread, drear, dryad, dryer, dured, durra, nerdy, nuder, randy, rared, rayed, readd, ready, redan, redry, reran, rerun, ruddy, ruder, udder, unary, under, urare, yarer, yearn.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DUNDREARY


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

44 55 4E 44 52 45 41 52 59

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 01010101 01001110 01000100 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#85 &#78 &#68 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0055 004E 0044 0052 0045 0041 0052 0059

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

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

385548385239355259

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1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
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