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Date "FIRE-DRAKE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 49 52 45 2D 44 52 41 4B 45 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01001001 01010010 01000101 00101101 01000100 01010010 01000001 01001011 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F I R E - D R A K E |
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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