PIRIE'S CHAIR

  

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PIRIE'S CHAIR

Specialty Definition: PIRIE'S CHAIR

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Pirie's Chair "The lowest seat o' hell." "If you do not mend your ways, you will be sent to Pirie's chair, the lowest seat of hell."
"In Pirie's chair you'll sit, I say,
The lowest seat o' hell;
If ye do not amend your ways,
It's there that ye must dwell."
Child's English and Scottish Ballads:
The Courteous Knight.
Pirrie or pyrrie means a sudden storm at sea (Scotch pirr). "They were driven back by storme of winde and pyrries of the sea." (North: Plutarch, p. 355.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: PIRIE'S CHAIR

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "'-a-c-e-h-i-i-i-p-r-r-s"

-4 letters: aspheric, chirpers, chirpier, crispier, parchesi, parchisi, perisarc, piracies, prairies, precrash, seraphic.

-5 letters: airship, archers, aspirer, cahiers, carpers, carries, cashier, ceriphs, charier, chirper, chirres, ciphers, crasher, crisper, eparchs, episcia, hairier, harpers, harpies, harries, pachisi, parches, parries, prairie, praiser, pricers, pricier, rapiers, raspier, repairs, scarier, scarper, scirrhi, scraper, scrapie, sharper, sharpie, spacier, spheric, spicier.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PIRIE'S CHAIR


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

50 49 52 49 45 27 53      43 48 41 49 52

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

    

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

01010000 01001001 01010010 01001001 01000101 00100111 01010011 00100000 01000011 01001000 01000001 01001001 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#73 &#82 &#73 &#69 &#39 &#83 &#32 &#67 &#72 &#65 &#73 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0049 0052 0049 0045 0027 0053      0043 0048 0041 0049 0052

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

504352433995323742354352

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INDEX

1. Anagrams
2. Orthography
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