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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Holy Isle Lindisfarne, in the German Ocean, about eight miles from Berwick-upon-Tweed. It was once the see of the famous St. Cuthbert, but now the bishopric is that of Durham. The ruins of the old cathedral are still visible. Ireland used to be called the Holy Island on account of its numerous "saints." Guernsey was so called in the tenth century in consequence of the great number of monks residing there. Rugen was so called by the Slavonic Varini. Scattery, to which St. Senanus retired, and swore that no female should set foot there, is the one referred to by Thomas Moore in his Irish Melodies, No. ii. 2. "Oh! haste and leave this sacred isle ... For on thy deck though dark it be, A female form I see. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HOLY ISLE |
| Specialty definitions using "HOLY ISLE": Sacred Isle. (references) |
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Screenplays | Or I will teach you that a daughter of the holy isle is a servant of no man. (The Mists of Avalon; writing credit: Marion Zimmer Bradley; Gavin Scott) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-i-l-l-o-s-y" | |
-1 letter: hilloes, hollies. | |
-2 letters: helios, hellos, hillos, holies, holily, hoyles, isohel, shelly, solely. | |
-3 letters: heils, helio, hello, hells, helos, hillo, hills, hilly, hoise, holes, holey, holly, hosel, hoyle, lisle, losel, shell, sheol, shiel, shill, shily, silly, slily, solei, yells, yills. | |
-4 letters: elhi, ells, heil, hell, helo, hies, hill, hoes, hole, hols, holy, hose, hoys, ills. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-i-l-l-o-s-y" | |
+1 letter: hostilely, yellowish. | |
+2 letters: lyophilise. | |
+3 letters: lightsomely, lyophilised, lyophilises, lyophilizes, mesophyllic. | |
+4 letters: apophyllites, blithesomely, hellaciously, isothermally, lyophilizers, lysolecithin, phyllotaxies, spheroidally. | |
+5 letters: geophysically, lysolecithins, policyholders, pyrophyllites, theophyllines. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 4F 4C 59 49 53 4C 45 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01001111 01001100 01011001 00100000 01001001 01010011 01001100 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H O L Y   I S L E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 004F 004C 0059 0049 0053 004C 0045 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42494659243534639 |
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