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POORER THAN IRUS

Specialty Definition: POORER THAN IRUS

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Poorer than Irus ("Iro pauperior"). Irus was the beggar employed by the suitors of Penelope to carry to her their tokens of love. When Ulysses returned home, Irus attempted to prevent his entering the gates, but Ulysses felled him to the ground, and threw the dead body into the road. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: POORER THAN IRUS

Specialty definitions using "POORER THAN IRUS": Irus. (references)

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Anagrams: POORER THAN IRUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-h-i-n-o-o-p-r-r-r-s-t-u"

-3 letters: arthrospore, euphoriants, perorations.

-4 letters: euphoriant, harpooners, honoraries, housetrain, neurospora, operations, peroration, personator, pretorians, pronatores, prorations, protrusion, resorption, respirator, ripsnorter.

-5 letters: atrophies, atropines, authorise, eruptions, euphorias, harpooner, honourers, hornpouts, nourisher, operation, operators, oratories, parroters, patronise, perianths, phratries, posterior, pretorian, pretrains, priorates, pronators, proration, prosateur, pterosaur, rainspout, ratooners, resonator, roturiers, senhorita, serration, superthin, supinator, terrapins.

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Alternative Orthography: POORER THAN IRUS


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

50 4F 4F 52 45 52      54 48 41 4E      49 52 55 53

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

        

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

01010000 01001111 01001111 01010010 01000101 01010010 00100000 01010100 01001000 01000001 01001110 00100000 01001001 01010010 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#79 &#79 &#82 &#69 &#82 &#32 &#84 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#32 &#73 &#82 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 004F 004F 0052 0045 0052      0054 0048 0041 004E      0049 0052 0055 0053

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

504949523952254423548243525553

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