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Definition: Orcus |
OrcusNoun1. God of the underworld; counterpart of Greek Pluto. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Orcus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
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Literature | Orcus The abode of the dead; death. (Roman mythology.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
In biology, Orcus is a genus of ladybird beetle.
In Dungeons & Dragons, Orcus is a demon prince, and lord of the undead.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Orcus."
Synonym: OrcusSynonym: Dis (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Orcus |
| Specialty definitions using "Orcus": O'gres. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Orcus": Ogre. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Orcus" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (death, Hades, ogre, the Lower World, whale). |
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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 |
island orcus | 16 |
orcus | 13 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: scour. | |
| Words within the letters "c-o-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cors, crus, curs, orcs, ours, rocs, sour. | |
-2 letters: cor, cos, cur, orc, ors, our, roc, sou. | |
-3 letters: or, os, so, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-o-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cerous, chorus, clours, cornus, corpus, course, courts, crocus, croups, crouse, cruors, curios, cursor, durocs, mucors, mucros, occurs, scours, soucar, source, succor. | |
+2 letters: acerous, aurochs, bescour, carious, carolus, carouse, chouser, cirrous, citrous, closure, colours, colures, concurs, cormous, cougars, coursed, courser, courses, couters, croquis, croupes, crusado, cuprous, curiosa, curious, cursors, cursory, focuser, obscure, ochrous, oculars, oscular, raucous, recoups, refocus, rouches, sarcous, scoured, scourer, scourge, scouter, scrotum, scrouge, soucars, sourced, sources, succors, succory, succour, sucrose, surcoat, turacos, uncorks, uncross. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4F 72 63 75 73 |
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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)01001111 01110010 01100011 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)O r c u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004F 0072 0063 0075 0073 |
| 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)4984698785 |
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