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OVERFLOURISH

Definition: OVERFLOURISH

OVERFLOURISH

Transitive verb

1. To embellish with outward ornaments or flourishes; to varnish over.

2. To make excessive display or flourish of.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Rhyming with "OVERFLOURISH"

Words rhyming with "OVERFLOURISH" (pronounced 'O`ver*flour"ish'): Abolish, Admonish, Affamish, Alish, Amateurish, Apish, Aspish, Assish, Astonish, Babish, Baboonish, Balkish, Banish, Bardish, Basquish, Bearish, Beauish, Blackish, Blockish, Bluish, Bluntish, Boarish, Bookish, Boorish, Boyish, Brackish, Brainish, Brinish, Broadish, Brockish, Brownish, Buccaneerish, Buckish, Buffoonish, Bullish, Calvish, Cavalierish, Cherish, Childish, Churlish, Clayish, Clownish, Coldish, Coltish, Coolish, Coyish, Czarish, Dampish, Danish, Dankish. (additional references)

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Anagrams: OVERFLOURISH

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-f-h-i-l-o-o-r-r-s-u-v"

-2 letters: flourisher.

-3 letters: foolisher, frivolers, frivolous.

-4 letters: fervours, floorers, flourish, flurries, frivoler, overfish, overfoul, overlush, oversoul, reovirus, rivulose.

-5 letters: ferrous, fervors, fervour, floorer, floosie, flusher, foliose, folious, foolish, friseur, frivols, fuhrers, furioso, furlers, furores, hoofers, horsier, hurlers, hurlies, hurries, lorries, lousier, louvers, louvres, orioles, ourself, reroofs, revisor, riflers, rolfers, roofers, rushier, shrivel, shriver, soilure, surfier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OVERFLOURISH


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

4F 56 45 52 46 4C 4F 55 52 49 53 48

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 01010110 01000101 01010010 01000110 01001100 01001111 01010101 01010010 01001001 01010011 01001000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0046 004C 004F 0055 0052 0049 0053 0048

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

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

495639524046495552435342

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Rhymes
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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