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FIRE-DRAKE

Date "FIRE-DRAKE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: FIRE-DRAKE

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Literature

Fire-drake or ~~~Fire-dragon.
Fire-dragon. A fiery serpent, an ignis-fatuus of large proportions, superstitiously believed to be a flying dragon keeping guard over hid treasures.
"There is a fellow somewhat near the door, he should be a brazier by his face, for, o' my conscience, twenty of the dog-days now reign in 's nose ... That fire-drake did I hit three times on the head." - Shakespeare: Henry VIII., v. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: FIRE-DRAKE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: firedrake.

Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-k-r-r"

-1 letter: freakier, rarefied.

-2 letters: ferried, freaked, readier, refired, refried.

-3 letters: aeried, aerier, arider, daiker, darker, deafer, dearer, dearie, defier, dekare, faerie, faired, fairer, fakeer, feared, fearer, feriae, kerfed, kerria, raider, reader, reared, redear, rediae, refire, reread.

-4 letters: aerie, afire, aider, aired, airer, darer, deair, defer, diker, direr, drake, drear, drier, eared, eider, erred, fader, faked.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-f-i-k-r-r"
 

+1 letter: firedrakes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: FIRE-DRAKE


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

46 49 52 45 2D 44 52 41 4B 45

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

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

01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00101101 01000100 01010010 01000001 01001011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#45 &#68 &#82 &#65 &#75 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 0052 0045 002D 0044 0052 0041 004B 0045

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

40435239153852354539

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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