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FARABOUT

Definition: FARABOUT

FARABOUT

Noun

1. A going out of the way; a digression.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Farabout \Far"*a*bout`\, noun. going out of the way; digression. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)

 

Anagrams: FARABOUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-f-o-r-t-u"

-2 letters: abator, rabato, rubato, tabour.

-3 letters: abaft, abort, about, aorta, boart, rabat, tabor, turbo.

-4 letters: abut, afar, aura, auto, barf, boar, boat, bora, bort, bota, bout, brat, brut, bura, faro, fart, fora, forb, fort, four, frat, raft, rato, rota, rout, tabu, taro, tofu, tora, tour, tuba, tufa, turf.

-5 letters: aba, abo, aft, arb, arf, art.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-b-f-o-r-t-u"
 

+4 letters: confabulator.

 

+5 letters: confabulators, confabulatory.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FARABOUT


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

46 41 52 41 42 4F 55 54

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 01000001 01010010 01000001 01000010 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#65 &#82 &#65 &#66 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0041 0052 0041 0042 004F 0055 0054

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

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

4035523536495554

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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