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GIANTS' DANCE

Specialty Definition: GIANTS' DANCE

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Giants' Dance (The). Stonehenge, which Geoffrey of Monmouth says was removed from Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland, by the magical skill of Merlin.
"If you [Aurelius] are desirous to honour the burying-place of these men [who routed Hengist] with an everlasting monument, send for the Giants' Dance, which is in Killaraus, a mountain in Ireland." - Geoffrey of Monmouth: British History, book viii. chap. 10. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: GIANTS' DANCE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-d-e-g-i-n-n-s-t"

-2 letters: descanting.

-3 letters: ascendant, ascending, caseating, decanting, indagates, instanced.

-4 letters: ancients, andantes, antacids, antigens, canniest, cantinas, distance, enacting, encasing, estancia, gentians, incanted, indagate, insectan, instance, scandent, scanting, scending, scenting, sedating, standing, steading, tannages.

-5 letters: acedias, acetins, actings, against, agendas, agisted, agnates, agnatic, ancient, andante, anginas, annates, ansated, antacid, anteing, antigen, antings, antisag, cagiest, candent, candies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GIANTS' DANCE


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

47 49 41 4E 54 53 27      44 41 4E 43 45

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

    

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

01000111 01001001 01000001 01001110 01010100 01010011 00100111 00100000 01000100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#83 &#39 &#32 &#68 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0049 0041 004E 0054 0053 0027      0044 0041 004E 0043 0045

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

414335485453923835483739

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2. Orthography
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