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| Domain | Definition |
Occupations | Circumcises Jewish male infants in accordance with tenets of faith: Reviews infant's family medical history to determine possibility of hemorrhage. Examines infant for infection and other conditions to determine best operational time and procedure. Disinfects surgical instruments, hands, and operative area. Affixes lyre-shaped shield to penis and excises foreskin and membrane along line of shield, using scalpel. Removes blood from wound, using suction, and applies sterile dressing. Recites prescribed benedictions and announces Hebrew name of child. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MOHEL |
| Specialty definitions using "MOHEL": Moohel. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Make like a mohel, huh? (The Sopranos; writing credit: Isabel Clara-Simo; Ramón De España) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Doyle the mohel Charles Bragg. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mohel | 26 |
album mohel | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MOHEL": mohelim, mohels. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-l-m-o" | |
-1 letter: helm, helo, hole, holm, home, mole. | |
-2 letters: elm, hem, hoe, mel, mho, mol, ohm, ole. | |
-3 letters: eh, el, em, he, hm, ho, lo, me, mo, oe, oh, om. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-l-m-o" | |
+1 letter: homely, mohels, phloem. | |
+2 letters: armhole, hemiola, hemlock, manhole, menthol, mohelim, mudhole, phloems. | |
+3 letters: armholes, cromlech, demolish, halidome, hamulose, heirloom, helotism, hemiolas, hemiolia, hemlocks, hemocoel, hemolyze, homegirl, homeland, homeless, homelier, homelike, homilies, hoteldom, hotelman, hotelmen, hydromel, lemonish, lothsome, manholes, menthols, mesophyl, methanol, methoxyl, molehill, motherly, mothlike, mudholes, philomel, phyllome, wormhole. | |
+4 letters: almshouse, amphibole, bombshell, chameleon, chamomile, cromlechs, endolymph, ethmoidal, halidomes, heirlooms, helotisms, hemiolias, hemocoels, hemolymph, hemolyses, hemolysin, hemolysis, hemolytic, hemolyzed, hemolyzes, homebuilt, homegirls, homelands, homeliest, homiletic, homologue, homolyses, homophile, hoteldoms, humorless, hydromels, lightsome, lithesome, loathsome, megilloth, mesophyll, mesophyls, methanols, molehills, monthlies, mouthlike, mycophile, nemophila, overwhelm, philomels, phyllomes, schoolmen, thumbhole, wholesome, wormholes. | |
| 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. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 4F 48 45 4C |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .... . .-.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01001111 01001000 01000101 01001100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M O H E L |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 004F 0048 0045 004C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4749423946 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Images: Photo Album | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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