KING'S KEYS

  

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KING'S KEYS

Specialty Definition: KING'S KEYS

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King's Keys The crow-bars, hatchets, and hammers used by sheriffs' officers to force doors and locks. (Law phrase.)
"The door, framed to withstand attacks from exciseman, constables, and other personages, considered to use the king's keys ... set his efforts at defiance."- Sir W. Scott: Redgauntlet, chap. xix. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: KING'S KEYS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-e-g-i-k-k-n-s-s-y"

-3 letters: yessing.

-4 letters: gneiss, keying, singes, skeins, skinks, skying.

-5 letters: eking, ensky, eying, ginks, kikes, kines, kings, kinks, kinky, kissy, segni, sengi, signs, sikes, sines, singe, sings, sinks, skegs, skein, skies, skiey, skink, skins, snyes, sykes, yikes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: KING'S KEYS


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

4B 49 4E 47 27 53      4B 45 59 53

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

    

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

01001011 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001011 01000101 01011001 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#75 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#75 &#69 &#89 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004B 0049 004E 0047 0027 0053      004B 0045 0059 0053

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

45434841953245395953

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2. Orthography
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