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ISLE OF LANTERNS

Specialty Definition: ISLE OF LANTERNS

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Isle of Lanterns (The), or Lantern-land. An imaginary country inhabited by pretenders to knowledge. In French, Lanternois. (Rabelais Pantagruel, v. 32, 33.)
Lucian has a similar conceit, called the City of Lanterns; and Dean Swift, in his Gulliver's Travels, makes his hero visit Laputa, the empire of quacks, false projectors, and pretenders to science. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ISLE OF LANTERNS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-l-n-n-o-r-s-s-t"

-3 letters: allosteries, fontanelles, literalness, neorealists.

-4 letters: fellations, firestones, flatliners, fontanelle, forestalls, innersoles, installers, linoleates, loneliness, neorealist, nonliteral, ornateness, reflations, reinflates, reinstalls, stoneflies, tensioners.

-5 letters: aerolites, alertness, alienness, aloneness, anointers, anserines, antisense, arsenites, assertion, earliness, earstones, elaterins, enlisters, entailers, entresols, essential, faintness, farnesols, fasteners, fellation, fellatios, fellators, felonries, felstones, fenestral, firestone, flaneries, flatirons, flatliner, flatlines.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ISLE OF LANTERNS


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

49 53 4C 45      4F 46      4C 41 4E 54 45 52 4E 53

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

        

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

01001001 01010011 01001100 01000101 00100000 01001111 01000110 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001110 01010100 01000101 01010010 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#83 &#76 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#70 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#78 &#84 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 0053 004C 0045      004F 0046      004C 0041 004E 0054 0045 0052 004E 0053

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

435346392494024635485439524853

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