FULHAMS

Domain	Definition
Literature	Fulhams or ~~~Fullams. Fullams. Loaded dice; so called from the suburb where the Bishop of London resides, which, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, was the most notorious place for blacklegs in all England. Dice made with a cavity were called "gourds." Those made to throw the high numbers (from five to twelve) were called "high fullams" or "gourds," and those made to throw the low numbers (from ace to four) were termed "low fullams" or "gourds." "For gourd and fullam holds And `high' and `low' beguile the rich and poor." Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3. Fulhams. Make-believes; so called from false or loaded dice. (See above.) "Fulhams of poetic fiction." Butler: Hudibras, pt. ii. 1. "Have their fulhams at command, Brought up to do their feats at hand." Butler: Upon Gaming. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	FULHAMS. Loaded dice are called high and lowmen, or high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of his time; either because they were made at Fulham, or from that place being the resort of sharpers. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Anagrams: FULHAMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-f-h-l-m-s-u"
	-1 letter: fulham, haulms.
	-2 letters: alums, flams, flash, flush, halms, haulm, hauls, hulas, mauls, shaul, sulfa.
	-3 letters: alms, alum, amus, fash, flam, flus, half, halm, hams, haul, hula, hums, lams, lash, lums, lush, mash, maul, mush, saul, sham, shul, slam, slum.
	-4 letters: als, amu, ash, fas, flu, ham, has, hum, lam, las, lum, mas, mus, sal.
	Words containing the letters "a-f-h-l-m-s-u"
	+1 letter: shameful.
	+3 letters: multiflash, shamefully.
	+4 letters: harmfulness.
	+5 letters: shamefulness.
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