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FURMITY

Definition: FURMITY

FURMITY

Noun

1. Same as Frumenty.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "FURMITY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1886. (references)

Specialty Definition: FURMITY

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	FURMITY, or FROMENTY. Wheat boiled up to a jelly. To simper like a furmity kettle: to smile, or look merry about the gills. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: FURMITY

English words defined with "FURMITY": Furmonty. (references)

Specialty definitions using "FURMITY": FROMENTY. (references)

Photo Album: FURMITY

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	"She pretended to eat a little of the furmity with the leaden spoon." / R. Barnes. An engagement in the oyster war on the Chesapeake / / from a sketch by F. Cresson Schell. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Anagrams: FURMITY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-i-m-r-t-u-y"
	-1 letter: fruity.
	-2 letters: fruit, mufti, turfy.
	-3 letters: firm, frit, fumy, fury, miry, mity, rift, rimy, trim, turf, yurt.
	-4 letters: fir, fit, fry, fur, mir, mut, rif, rim, rum, rut, try, tui, yum.
	-5 letters: if, it, mi, mu, my, ti, um, ut.
	Words containing the letters "f-i-m-r-t-u-y"
	+1 letter: fumitory.
	+3 letters: mirthfully, uniformity.
	+4 letters: fluorimetry.
	+5 letters: multiformity, unconformity.
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Alternative Orthography: FURMITY

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

46 55 52 4D 49 54 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)

01000110 01010101 01010010 01001101 01001001 01010100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#85 &#82 &#77 &#73 &#84 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0055 0052 004D 0049 0054 0059

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

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

40555247435459

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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