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Literature | Glossin (Lawyer) purchases Ellangowan estate, and is found by Counsellor Pleydell to be implicated in carrying off Henry Bertrand, the heir of the estate. Both Glossin and Dirk Hatteraick, his accomplice, are sent to prison, and in the night the lawyer contrives to enter the smuggler's cell, when a quarrel ensues, in which Hatteraick strangles him, and then hangs himself." (Sir W. Scott: Guy Mannering.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: GLOSSIN |
| Specialty definitions using "GLOSSIN": Hatteraick. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GLOSSIN": glossina, glossinas, glossiness, glossinesses, glossing. (additional references) | |
Words containing "GLOSSIN": reglossing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: losings. | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
-1 letter: gnosis, losing, siglos, slings, soling. | |
-2 letters: gloss, lingo, lings, linos, lions, loins, longs, noils, signs, silos, sings, sling, slogs, snogs, soils, songs. | |
-3 letters: gins, ions, ling, lino, lins, lion, logs, loin, long, loss, nils, nogs, noil, oils, sign, silo, sing, sins, slog, snog, soil, soli, sols, song, sons. | |
-4 letters: gin, gos, ins, ion, lin. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-l-n-o-s-s" | |
+1 letter: closings, flossing, glossina, glossing, goslings, lassoing, loginess, sloshing. | |
+2 letters: assoiling, gasolines, glissando, glossinas, godliness, isogonals, lessoning, longships, scoldings, slingshot, sploshing, spoolings. | |
+3 letters: analogists, blossoming, disclosing, dissolving, enologists, glissandos, gloominess, glossiness, granulosis, growliness, loginesses, lovingness, lysogenies, lysogenise, mongolisms, neologisms, nosologies, nostalgias, nostalgics, nostalgist, plainsongs, reglossing, schoolings, sclerosing, singletons, sinologies, sinologist, sinologues, slingshots, sloganizes, solarising, solecising, subsoiling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 4C 4F 53 53 49 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-.. --- ... ... .. -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01001100 01001111 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G L O S S I N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 004C 004F 0053 0053 0049 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41464953534348 |
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