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HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE

Specialty Definition: HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE

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Hair-breadth 'Scape A very narrow escape from some evil. In measurement the forty-eighth part of an inch is called a "hair-breadth."
"Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field,
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' th' imminent deadly reach.' Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE

Specialty definitions using "HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE": Hair-breadth 'Scape. (references)

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Anagrams: HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-a-b-c-d-e-e-h-h-i-p-r-r-s-t"

-5 letters: hairbreadths, hairsbreadth.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HAIR-BREADTH 'SCAPE


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

48 41 49 52 2D 42 52 45 41 44 54 48      27 53 43 41 50 45

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

    

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

01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010 00101101 01000010 01010010 01000101 01000001 01000100 01010100 01001000 00100000 00100111 01010011 01000011 01000001 01010000 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#45 &#66 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#84 &#72 &#32 &#39 &#83 &#67 &#65 &#80 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0041 0049 0052 002D 0042 0052 0045 0041 0044 0054 0048      0027 0053 0043 0041 0050 0045

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

423543521536523935385442295337355039

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