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GRYLL

Date "GRYLL" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references)


Specialty Definition: GRYLL

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Literature

Gryll Let Gryll be Gryll, and keep his hoggish mind. Don't attempt to wash a blackamoor white; the leeopard will never change his spots. Gryll is from the Greek gru (the grunting of a hog). When Sir Guyon disenchanted the forms in the Bower of Bliss some were exceedingly angry, and one in particular, named Gryll, who had been metamorphosed by Acrasia into a hog, abused him most roundly. "Come," says the palmer to Sir Guyon,
"Let Gryll be Gryll, and have his hoggish mind.
But let us hence depart while weather serves.
And wind."
Spenser Faërie Queene, book ii. 12. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Commercial Usage: GRYLL

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Books

  • Headlong Hall and Gryll Grange (Worlds Classics) (reference)

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

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Anagrams: GRYLL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

 Words containing the letters "g-l-l-r-y"
 

+1 letter: argyll.

 

+2 letters: allergy, argylls, gallery, gyrally, largely, regally.

 

+3 letters: allegory, ballyrag, bullyrag, frugally, glycerol, glyceryl, gorbelly, gravelly, laryngal, playgirl, rallying, vulgarly.

 

+4 letters: angularly, ballyrags, bullyrags, darlingly, flaringly, gallantry, generally, girlishly, glaringly, glycerols, glyceryls, gradually, laggardly, laryngals, laryngeal, leeringly, playgirls, rallyings, regularly, trollying, villagery.

 

+5 letters: alarmingly, alluringly, blurringly, drawlingly, flagrantly, fleeringly, gallerying, galleryite, germinally, gesturally, gloriously, gracefully, gratefully, growlingly, gruelingly, integrally, laryngeals, marginally, metallurgy, originally, pillorying, prodigally, pyrogallol, ramblingly, rattlingly, regionally, rightfully, singularly, sluggardly, sterlingly, surgically, swirlingly, tragically, trigonally, trolleying, virginally, wrongfully.

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

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Alternative Orthography: GRYLL


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

47 52 59 4C 4C

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01000111 01010010 01011001 01001100 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#89 &#76 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 0059 004C 004C

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

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

4152594646

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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