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FLAPDRAGON

Definition: FLAPDRAGON

FLAPDRAGON

Noun

1. The thing thus caught and eaten.

2. A game in which the players catch raisins out burning brandy, and swallow them blazing.

Transitive verb

1. To swallow whole, as a flapdragon; to devour.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Anagrams: FLAPDRAGON

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-d-f-g-l-n-o-p-r"
	-2 letters: largando, parlando, podagral.
	-3 letters: dalapon, garland, goldarn, gonadal, grandpa, granola, pandora, paragon, plafond, podagra.
	-4 letters: agonal, analog, angora, anodal, apodal, dognap, dragon, flagon, ladron, lapdog, lardon, organa, padnag, pagoda, parang, pardon, planar, prolan, raglan.
	-5 letters: adorn, agora, aland, alang, algor, along, apron, argal, argol, argon, donga, fanga, farad, flong, flora, frond, galop, ganof, gland.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: FLAPDRAGON

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

46 4C 41 50 44 52 41 47 4F 4E

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 01001100 01000001 01010000 01000100 01010010 01000001 01000111 01001111 01001110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

F L A P D R A G O N

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 004C 0041 0050 0044 0052 0041 0047 004F 004E

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

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

40463550385235414948

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