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EXCUSS

Definitions: EXCUSS

EXCUSS

Transitive verb

1. To seize and detain by law, as goods.

2. To inspect; to investigate; to decipher.

3. To shake off; to discard.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Excuss \Ex*cuss"\, transitive verb. [Latin expression excussus. present participle of excutere to shake off; ex out, from quatere to shake. Compare to Quash.]. (Websters 1913)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: EXCUSS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  excuss miss

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: EXCUSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-s-s-u-x"

-2 letters: cess, cues, cuss, ecus, secs, sues, uses.

-3 letters: cue, ecu, ess, sec, sex, sue, use.

-4 letters: es, ex, us, xu.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-s-s-u-x"
 

+1 letter: excuses.

 

+2 letters: excursus, excusers.

 

+4 letters: exclusions, exclusives, excursions, excursuses, sauceboxes.

 

+5 letters: exclusivism, exclusivist, sociosexual, subclimaxes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: EXCUSS


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

45 58 43 55 53 53

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)

01000101 01011000 01000011 01010101 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#69 &#88 &#67 &#85 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0045 0058 0043 0055 0053 0053

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

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

395837555353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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