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QUIRBOILLY

Definition: QUIRBOILLY

QUIRBOILLY

Noun

1. Leather softened by boiling so as to take any required shape. Upon drying, it becomes exceedingly hard, and hence was formerly used for armor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Quirboilly \Quir"boil*ly`\, noun. [from Old English expression cuir bouilli.]. (Websters 1913)

Anagrams: QUIRBOILLY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-i-i-l-l-o-q-r-u-y"
	-3 letters: burlily.
	-4 letters: brolly, liquor, oilily.
	-5 letters: billy, brill, broil, bully, burly, libri, loury, oribi, quill, roily.
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.

Alternative Orthography: QUIRBOILLY

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

51 55 49 52 42 4F 49 4C 4C 59

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)

--.- ..- .. .-. -... --- .. .-.. .-.. -.--.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010001 01010101 01001001 01010010 01000010 01001111 01001001 01001100 01001100 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#73 &#82 &#66 &#79 &#73 &#76 &#76 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0049 0052 0042 004F 0049 004C 004C 0059

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

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

51554352364943464659

INDEX

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

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