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LAD O' WAX

Specialty Definition: LAD O' WAX

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Lad o' Wax A little boy, a doll of a man. In Romeo and Juliet the Nurse calls Paris "a man of wax," meaning a very "proper man." Horace speaks of the "waxen arms of Telephus," meaning well modelled. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: LAD O' WAX

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-d-l-o-w-x"

-3 letters: waldo, woald.

-4 letters: alow, awol, axal, load, woad, wold.

-5 letters: aal, ado, ala, awa, awl, dal, daw, dol, dow, lad, law, lax, low, lox, old, owl, wad, wax.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LAD O' WAX


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

4C 41 44      4F 27      57 41 58

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

        

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

01001100 01000001 01000100 00100000 01001111 00100111 00100000 01010111 01000001 01011000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#65 &#68 &#32 &#79 &#39 &#32 &#87 &#65 &#88

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0041 0044      004F 0027      0057 0041 0058

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

46353824992573558

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