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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pick Straws (To). To show fatigue or weariness, as birds pick up straws to make their nests (or bed). "Their eyelids did not once pick straws, And wink, and sink away; No, no; they were as brisk as bees, And loving things did say." Peter Pindar: Orson and Ellen, canto v. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-k-p-r-s-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: tripacks. | |
-3 letters: karstic, pitsaws, racists, rapists, ripsaws, sacrist, scripts, spastic, stricks, tripack. | |
-4 letters: aspics, capris, crasis, crisps, crissa, crista, karsts, kraits, pastis, pitsaw, pricks, racist, rapist, ripsaw, scarps, scarts, scraps, scrips, script, sistra, sitars, skirts, spaits, sparks, spicas, spicks, spirts, sprats, sprits, stacks, stairs, sticks, stirks, stirps, straps, straws, strick, strips, tapirs, tracks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 49 43 4B      53 54 52 41 57 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01001001 01000011 01001011 00100000 01010011 01010100 01010010 01000001 01010111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P I C K   S T R A W S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0049 0043 004B      0053 0054 0052 0041 0057 0053 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)504337452535452355753 |
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