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Date "NESSUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
"NESSUS" is a common misspelling or typo for: nisus. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Nessus Shirt of Nessus. A source of misfortune from which there is no escape; a fatal present; anything that wounds the susceptibilities. Thus Renan has "the Nessus-shirt of ridicule." Hercules ordered Nessus (the centaur) to carry his wife Dejanira across a river. The centaur ill-treated the woman, and Hercules shot him with a poisoned arrow. Nessus, in revenge, gave Dejanira his tunic, saying to whomsoever she gave it would love her exclusively. Dejanira gave it to her husband, who was devoured by poison as soon as he put it on; but, after enduring agony, the hero threw himself on a funeral pile, and was consumed. (See Harmonias Robe .) "While to my limbs th'en venomed mantle clings, Drenched in the centaur's black, malignant gore." West: Triumphs of the Gout (Lucian). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Crosswords: NESSUS |
| Specialty definitions using "NESSUS": Fatal Gifts ♦ Harmonia's Robe. (references) |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "NESSUS": nessus-shirt. | |
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| 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 |
nessus | 51 |
natalie nessus | 3 |
nessus window | 3 |
nessus scanner security | 3 |
knoppix nessus | 2 |
download nessus | 2 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-n-s-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: ness, sues, suns, suss, uses. | |
-3 letters: ens, ess, nus, sen, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
-4 letters: en, es, ne, nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-n-s-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sinuses, sunless, sunsets. | |
+2 letters: business, busyness, censuses, justness, lushness, sensuous, smugness, snubness, snugness, sourness, subsense, suchness, sundress, sunrises, sureness, suspends, suspense, unstress. | |
+3 letters: bushiness, concusses, consensus, danseuses, dissensus, duenesses, dulnesses, dunnesses, duskiness, dustiness, flushness, fulnesses, fussiness, fustiness, gushiness, gustiness, gutsiness, huskiness, issuances, lousiness, lustiness, mousiness, mushiness, muskiness, mussiness, mustiness, nonissues, piousness, plushness, pressruns, pursiness, pushiness, rustiness, sauciness, soundless, soundness, squatness, stoutness, suaveness, subsenses, sulkiness, sultaness, summonses, sunfishes, sunniness, sunshades, sunshines, sunstones, surliness, suspenser, suspenses, suspensor, uncrosses, undresses, unsuccess, untrusses, usualness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 45 53 53 55 53 |
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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)01001110 01000101 01010011 01010011 01010101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N E S S U S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0045 0053 0053 0055 0053 |
| 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)483953535553 |
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