Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.

LAID ON THE SHELF

Specialty Definition: LAID ON THE SHELF

DomainDefinition

Slang in 1811

LAID ON THE SHELF, or LAID UP IN LAVENDER. Pawned. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

Top     

Synonyms within Context: LAID ON THE SHELF

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Top     

Crosswords: LAID ON THE SHELF

Specialty definitions using "LAID ON THE SHELF": Go to the WallIrtish FerryLAID UP IN LAVENDEROn the Shelf. (references)

Top     

Anagrams: LAID ON THE SHELF

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-3 letters: endothelial.

-4 letters: deflations, defoliants, defoliates, endothelia, fellations, fieldstone, insheathed, linoleates.

-5 letters: anetholes, datelines, deflation, defoliant, defoliate, delations, deletions, endosteal, enfilades, fashioned, fellation, fellatios, flatlined, flatlines, hailstone, halftones, hanselled, headlines, headnotes, headstone, hostelled, insolated, installed, landsleit, leasehold, linoleate, loneliest, nailfolds, oeillades, tenailles, tinselled, toenailed.

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.

Top     

Alternative Orthography: LAID ON THE SHELF


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

4C 41 49 44      4F 4E      54 48 45      53 48 45 4C 46

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

            

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

01001100 01000001 01001001 01000100 00100000 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000101 00100000 01010011 01001000 01000101 01001100 01000110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#73 &#68 &#32 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#32 &#83 &#72 &#69 &#76 &#70

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0049 0044      004F 004E      0054 0048 0045      0053 0048 0045 004C 0046

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

4635433824948254423925342394640

Top     



INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.