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RED HAND

Definition: RED HAND

RED HAND

1. (Her.), a left hand appaum['e], fingers erect, borne on an escutcheon, being the mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; -- called also Badge of Ulster .

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 



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Crosswords: RED HAND

English words defined with "RED HAND": Bloody handHand tree. (references)
Specialty definitions using "RED HAND": Black body radiationDeputy, DIAL MARKERRedmain, Ruddy-manesheriff. (references)

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Modern Usage: RED HAND

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Movie/TV Titles

The Red Hand Gang (1977)

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

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Non-Fiction Usage: RED HAND

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Civil Liberties

United Kingdom

The Red Hand Defenders, a cover name for the LVF, claimed responsibility for the killing. (references)

Human Rights

United Kingdom

Other groups that the Government determined were not maintaining a total and unequivocal cease-fire were the Real IRA (RIRA), the Continuity IRA, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA), the Red Hand Defenders, and the Orange Volunteers. (references)

United Kingdom

The four cases are those of Pat Finucane, a defense attorney who was killed by members of the Ulster Defense Association in 1989; Billy "King Rat" Wright, a loyalist paramilitary leader who was killed in prison in 1997 by republican inmates; Robert Hamill, who in 1997 was killed by a loyalist mob while nearby police allegedly failed to act; and Rosemary Nelson, a defense attorney killed in 1999 by a car bomb planted by the Red Hand Defenders. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: RED HAND

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-r"

-1 letter: dander, darned, handed, harden.

-2 letters: adder, dared, denar, dread, haded, hared, heard, readd, redan.

-3 letters: dare, darn, dead, dean, dear, earn, hade, haed, haen, hand, hard, hare, head, hear, herd, hern, nard, near, nerd, rand, read, redd, rend, rhea.

-4 letters: add, and, ane, are, dad, dah, den, ear, edh, end, era, ern, had, hae, hen, her, nae, nah, rad, rah, ran, red.

-5 letters: ad, ae, ah, an, ar, de, ed, eh, en, er, ha, he, na, ne, re.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-h-n-r"
 

+1 letter: adherend, hardened.

 

+2 letters: adherends, anhydride, hagridden, rehandled, underhand.

 

+3 letters: anhydrides, barehanded, brandished, decahedron, dragonhead, dunderhead, forehanded, freehanded, hardhanded, ironhanded, landholder, overhanded, rehardened, unheralded, unthreaded, verandahed.

 

+4 letters: apprehended, decahedrons, dehydrating, dehydration, downhearted, dragonheads, dreadnought, dunderheads, handbreadth, handcrafted, hydroplaned, kindhearted, landholders, overhandled, philandered, philodendra, roundheaded, shorthanded, thunderhead, underhanded, wrongheaded.

 

+5 letters: candleholder, chandeliered, dehydrations, disheartened, dodecahedron, dreadnoughts, dunderheaded, endochondral, forehandedly, freehandedly, handbreadths, handsbreadth, hydrogenated, merchandised, merchandized, rhodomontade, thunderheads, undercharged, undischarged.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RED HAND


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

52 45 44      48 41 4E 44

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

    

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

01010010 01000101 01000100 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#69 &#68 &#32 &#72 &#65 &#78 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0045 0044      0048 0041 004E 0044

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

523938242354838

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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