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PEN AND FEATHER

Specialty Definition: PEN AND FEATHER

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Pen and Feather are varieties of the same word, the root being the Sanskrit pat, to fly. (We have the Sanskrit pattra, a wing or instrument for flying; Latin, petna or, penna, pen; Greek, pteron; Teutonic, phathra; Anglo-Saxon, fether; our "feather.")
Analogous examples are TEAR and LARME, NAG and EQUUS, WIG and PERUKE, HEART and COEUR, etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: PEN AND FEATHER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-e-f-h-n-n-p-r-t"

-3 letters: pentahedra, perennated.

-4 letters: feathered, heartened, perennate, preheated, trapanned, trepanned.

-5 letters: adherent, deaerate, defeater, deferent, departee, earthpea, fathered, federate, freehand, hetaerae, neatened, neatherd, nepenthe, parented, pennated, redefeat, reheated, repeated, repented, repetend, tapenade, threaped, threeped.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PEN AND FEATHER


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

50 45 4E      41 4E 44      46 45 41 54 48 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01000101 01001110 00100000 01000001 01001110 01000100 00100000 01000110 01000101 01000001 01010100 01001000 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#65 &#78 &#68 &#32 &#70 &#69 &#65 &#84 &#72 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0045 004E      0041 004E 0044      0046 0045 0041 0054 0048 0045 0052

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

5039482354838240393554423952

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