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QUINAPALUS

Date "QUINAPALUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)


Specialty Definition: QUINAPALUS

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Literature

Quinapalus The Mrs. Harris of "authorities in citations." If anyone wishes to clench an argument by some quotation, let him cite this ponderous collection.
"What says Quinapalus: `Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."- Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, i. 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: QUINAPALUS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-i-l-n-p-q-s-u-u"

-2 letters: nauplius.

-3 letters: pasquil, paulins, salpian, spinula.

-4 letters: lanais, lapins, lauans, lianas, lupins, nasial, paisan, palais, paulin, pausal, pilaus, plains, quails, qualia, quipus, salina, spinal, ulpans.

-5 letters: alans, alias, anils, anlas, apian, aquas, lanai, lapin, lapis, lauan, liana, luaus, lunas, lupin, lupus, nails, nasal, nipas, pails, pains, paisa, pians, pilau, pilus, pinas, plain, plans, pulis.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QUINAPALUS


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

51 55 49 4E 41 50 41 4C 55 53

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)

01010001 01010101 01001001 01001110 01000001 01010000 01000001 01001100 01010101 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#73 &#78 &#65 &#80 &#65 &#76 &#85 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0049 004E 0041 0050 0041 004C 0055 0053

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

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

51554348355035465553

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1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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