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OBSTROPULOUS

Specialty Definition: OBSTROPULOUS

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	OBSTROPULOUS. Vulgar misnomer of OBSTREPEROUS: as, I was going my rounds, and found this here gemman very obstropulous, whereof I comprehended him as an auspicious parson. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: OBSTROPULOUS

Specialty definitions using "OBSTROPULOUS": OIL OF STIRRUP. (references)

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

Anagrams: OBSTROPULOUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-l-o-o-o-p-r-s-s-t-u-u"
	-3 letters: stuporous, troublous.
	-4 letters: lustrous, outpours, subplots.
	-5 letters: brulots, outpour, rubouts, soursop, sprouts, stupors, sublots, subplot, surplus, uproots.
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Alternative Orthography: OBSTROPULOUS

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

4F 42 53 54 52 4F 50 55 4C 4F 55 53

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)

01001111 01000010 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001111 01010000 01010101 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#66 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#79 &#80 &#85 &#76 &#79 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0042 0053 0054 0052 004F 0050 0055 004C 004F 0055 0053

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

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

493653545249505546495553

INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography

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