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OVERWING

Definition: OVERWING

OVERWING

Transitive verb

1. To outflank.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "OVERWING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Note: Overwing \O`ver*wing"\, transitive verb. To outflank. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: OVERWING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wingover.

Words within the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-v-w"

-1 letter: overing.

-2 letters: eringo, govern, ignore, inwove, region, renvoi, roving, rowing, vowing, wigeon, winger, wivern.

-3 letters: envoi, genro, giron, given, giver, goner, groin, grove, grown, irone, ogive, ovine, owing, owner, reign, renig, rewin, rewon, riven, roven, rowen, vigor, vireo, vogie, vower, wiver, woven, wring, wrong.

-4 letters: enow, ergo, gien, girn, giro, give, goer, gone, gore.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-i-n-o-r-v-w"
 

+1 letter: overawing, overswing, reavowing, wingovers.

 

+2 letters: oversewing, overswings.

 

+3 letters: overblowing, overdrawing, overflowing, overgrowing, overwarming, overwearing, overweening, overwetting, overwinding, overworking, overwriting.

 

+4 letters: overbrowsing, overcrowding, overpowering, overstrewing, overswinging, overthrowing, overwatering, overweighing, overwhelming.

 

+5 letters: overborrowing, overshadowing, overweeningly, overweighting, overwintering.

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

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Alternative Orthography: OVERWING


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

4F 56 45 52 57 49 4E 47

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 01010111 01001001 01001110 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#79 &#86 &#69 &#82 &#87 &#73 &#78 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004F 0056 0045 0052 0057 0049 004E 0047

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

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

4956395257434841

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