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FIRE CROSS

Definition: FIRE CROSS

FIRE CROSS

1. See Fiery cross . [Obs.] --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: FIRE CROSS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Alarm

Noun: alarm; alarum, larum, alarm bell, tocsin, alerts, beat of drum, sound of trumpet, note of alarm, hue and cry, fire cross, signal of distress; blue lights; war-cry, war-whoop; warning; fogsignal, foghorn; yellow flag; danger signal; red light, red flag; fire bell; police whistle.

Warfare

Verb: arm; raise troops, mobilize troops; raise up in arms; take up the cudgels; take up arms, fly to arms, appeal to arms, fly to the sword; draw the sword, unsheathe the sword; dig up the hatchet, dig up the tomahawk; go to war, wage war, 'let slip the dogs of war'; cry havoc; kindle the torch of war, light the torch of war; raise one's banner, raise the fire cross; hoist the black flag; throw away, fling away the scabbard; enroll, enlist; take the field; take the law into one's own hands; do battle, give battle, join battle, engage in battle, go to battle; flesh one's sword; set to, fall to, engage, measure swords with, draw the trigger, cross swords; come to blows, come to close quarters; fight; combat; contend; battle with, break a lance with.

Battle, tug of war; (contention); service, campaigning, active service, tented field; kriegspiel, Kriegsspiel; fire cross, trumpet, clarion, bugle, pibroch, slogan; war-cry, war-whoop; battle cry, beat of drum, rappel, tom-tom; calumet of war; word of command; password, watchword; passage d-armes.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: FIRE CROSS

English words defined with "FIRE CROSS": crossfire. (references)

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Anagrams: FIRE CROSS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: crossfire.

Words within the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-r-s-s"

-1 letter: crosiers.

-2 letters: cirrose, corries, crosier, crosser, forcers, frescos, orrices, orrises, recross, scorers, sferics.

-3 letters: corers, corrie, corses, cosier, cosies, criers, crises, crores, crosse, ferric, ficoes, firers, forcer, forces, fresco, friers, frises, orrice, osiers, ricers, risers, rosier, scorer, scores, scries, seisor, serifs.

-4 letters: ceros, cires, coifs, coirs, corer, cores, corse, coses, cosie, cress, crier, cries.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-i-o-r-r-s-s"
 

+1 letter: crossfires.

 

+4 letters: ferrosilicons.

 

+5 letters: refractoriness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FIRE CROSS


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

46 49 52 45      43 52 4F 53 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00100000 01000011 01010010 01001111 01010011 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#32 &#67 &#82 &#79 &#83 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0045      0043 0052 004F 0053 0053

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

4043523923752495353

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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