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HEAD-CHEESE

Definition: HEAD-CHEESE

HEAD-CHEESE

Noun

1. A dish made of portions of the head, or head and feet, of swine, cut up fine, seasoned, and pressed into a cheeselike mass.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Modern Translations: HEAD-CHEESE

Language Translations for "HEAD-CHEESE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

French

  

pâté de tête (head cheese, potted head), fromage de tête (head cheese, headcheese, potted head). (various references)

   

Italian

  

testa in cassetta (head cheese, potted head), coppa d'inverno (head cheese, potted head). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ead-cheesehay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: HEAD-CHEESE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: headcheese.

Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-e-h-h-s"

-3 letters: cheesed, decease.

-4 letters: cashed, ceased, chased, cheese, hashed, secede.

-5 letters: ached, aches, aedes, ashed, cades, cased, cease, cedes, chads, chase, daces, deash, eased, eched, eches, hades, heads, heeds, sadhe, shade.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-e-h-h-s"
 

+1 letter: headcheeses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEAD-CHEESE


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

48 45 41 44 2D 43 48 45 45 53 45

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

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

01001000 01000101 01000001 01000100 00101101 01000011 01001000 01000101 01000101 01010011 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#65 &#68 &#45 &#67 &#72 &#69 &#69 &#83 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 0041 0044 002D 0043 0048 0045 0045 0053 0045

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

4239353815374239395339

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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