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MOURNIVAL

Definition: MOURNIVAL

MOURNIVAL

Noun

1. See Murnival.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: MOURNIVAL

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Literature

Mournival Four cards all alike, as four aces, four kings, etc., in a game of cards called Gleek. Gleek is three cards alike.
"A mournival of aces, gleek of knaves,
Just nine a-piece."
Albumazar, iii. 5.
Poole in his English Parnassus called the four elements Nature's first mournival. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: MOURNIVAL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-n-o-r-u-v"

-2 letters: ruminal, unmoral.

-3 letters: alumin, alumni, lumina, marlin, morula, moulin, normal, oilman, ovular, rumina, urinal, valour.

-4 letters: aloin, amino, amnio, amour, anvil, avion, inarm, invar, larum, liman, linum, loran, lunar, manor, mavin, miaou, miaul, minor, moira, molar, moral, mourn, mural, nival, noria, onium, ravin, rival, roman, ulnar, unarm, urial, valor, vinal, viola, viral, voila.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-n-o-r-u-v"
 

+2 letters: voluntarism.

 

+3 letters: voluntarisms, voluntaryism.

 

+4 letters: vermiculation, voluntaryisms.

 

+5 letters: macroevolution, vermiculations.

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

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Alternative Orthography: MOURNIVAL


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

4D 4F 55 52 4E 49 56 41 4C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01001101 01001111 01010101 01010010 01001110 01001001 01010110 01000001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#79 &#85 &#82 &#78 &#73 &#86 &#65 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 004F 0055 0052 004E 0049 0056 0041 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

474955524843563546

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