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LIGHT TROOPS

Specialty Definition: LIGHT TROOPS

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Literature

Light Troops i.e. light cavalry, meaning Lancers and Hussars, who are neither such large men as the "Heavies," nor yet so tall. (See Light-Armed Artillery.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

LIGHT TROOPS. Lice; the light troops are in full march; the lice are crawling about. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Crosswords: LIGHT TROOPS

English words defined with "LIGHT TROOPS": Chasseur. (references)
Specialty definitions using "LIGHT TROOPS": Heavies. (references)

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Commercial Usage: LIGHT TROOPS

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Books

  • Louis XV's Army (4) Light Troops & Specialists (Men-At-Arms Series, 308) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: LIGHT TROOPS

Illustrations:
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Anagrams: LIGHT TROOPS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"

-1 letter: proglottis.

-2 letters: poortiths, spotlight, stoplight.

-3 letters: otoliths, poortith, postriot, shopgirl, stolport.

-4 letters: girosol, glottis, gosport, grottos, hotspot, ologist, ooliths, otolith, photogs, plights, poloist, poorish, potshot, prologs, protist, risotto, spotlit, spright, topsoil.

-5 letters: girths, golosh, griots, griths, grotto, holist, igloos, isolog, lights, liroth, lithos, lottos, ogrish, oolith, orlops, photog, photos, pilots, pistol, plight, polios, polish, pooris.

 Words containing the letters "g-h-i-l-o-o-p-r-s-t-t"
 

+2 letters: herpetologist.

 

+3 letters: anthropologist, herpetologists.

 

+4 letters: anthropologists.

 

+5 letters: neuropathologist, photolithographs.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LIGHT TROOPS


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

4C 49 47 48 54      54 52 4F 4F 50 53

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

    

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

01001100 01001001 01000111 01001000 01010100 00100000 01010100 01010010 01001111 01001111 01010000 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#73 &#71 &#72 &#84 &#32 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#79 &#80 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0049 0047 0048 0054      0054 0052 004F 004F 0050 0053

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

46434142542545249495053

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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