MACGIRDIE'S MARE

  

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MACGIRDIE'S MARE

Specialty Definition: MACGIRDIE'S MARE

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MacGirdie's Mare used by degrees to eat less and less, but just as he had reduced her to a straw a day the poor beast died. This is an old Greek joke, which is well known to schoolboys who have been taught the Analecta Minora. (See Waverley, p. 54.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: MACGIRDIE'S MARE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-a-c-d-e-e-g-i-i-m-m-r-r-s"

-4 letters: miscarriage, mismarriage.

-5 letters: germicides, gramercies, miscarried, scrimmaged, scrimmager.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MACGIRDIE'S MARE


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

4D 41 43 47 49 52 44 49 45 27 53      4D 41 52 45

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

    

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

01001101 01000001 01000011 01000111 01001001 01010010 01000100 01001001 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01001101 01000001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#67 &#71 &#73 &#82 &#68 &#73 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#77 &#65 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0043 0047 0049 0052 0044 0049 0045 0027 0053      004D 0041 0052 0045

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

473537414352384339953247355239

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2. Orthography
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