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JOHN-A-DREAMS

Specialty Definition: JOHN-A-DREAMS

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John-a-Dreams A stupid, dreamy fellow, always in a brown study and half asleep.
"Yet I,
A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak,
Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,
And can say nothing."
Shakespeare: Hamlet, ii. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: JOHN-A-DREAMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-h-j-m-n-o-r-s"

-2 letters: handsomer.

-3 letters: adenomas, handsome, hardnose, headsman, herdsman, horseman, jarheads, jemadars, madronas, madrones, menorahs, monardas, ransomed, rhamnose.

-4 letters: adenoma, anadems, ashamed, daemons, damners, darshan, dehorns, dharmas, dharnas, enamors, hadrons, hardens, headman, herdman, hoarsen, jarhead, jemadar, jordans, madrona, madrone, maenads, majored, mansard, masoned, menorah, moaners, moderns, monades, monarda, oarsman, oarsmen, radomes, randoms, remands, rodsman, rodsmen.

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

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Alternative Orthography: JOHN-A-DREAMS


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

4A 4F 48 4E 2D 41 2D 44 52 45 41 4D 53

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

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

01001010 01001111 01001000 01001110 00101101 01000001 00101101 01000100 01010010 01000101 01000001 01001101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#74 &#79 &#72 &#78 &#45 &#65 &#45 &#68 &#82 &#69 &#65 &#77 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004A 004F 0048 004E 002D 0041 002D 0044 0052 0045 0041 004D 0053

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

44494248153515385239354753

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