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RETIARY

Definitions: RETIARY

RETIARY

Adjective

1. Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle.

2. Constructing or using a web, or net, to catch prey; -- said of certain spiders.

3. Netlike.

Noun

1. A retiarius.

2. Any spider which spins webs to catch its prey.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: RETIARY

English words defined with "RETIARY": Telary. (references)

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Anagrams: RETIARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-i-r-r-t-y"

-1 letter: artery, artier, irater, rarity.

-2 letters: airer, eyrir, irate, rater, retia, retry, tarre, tarry, teary, terai, terra, terry, trier, yarer.

-3 letters: aery, airt, airy, arty, eyra, rare, rate, rear, rite, tare, tear, tier, tire, tray, trey, tyer, tyre, yare, year, yeti, yirr.

-4 letters: air, ait, are, art, ate, aye, ear, eat, era, err, eta, ire.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-i-r-r-t-y"
 

+1 letter: literary, tertiary.

 

+2 letters: artillery, irreality, itinerary, martyries, martyrize, termitary.

 

+3 letters: anteriorly, arterially, erythremia, expiratory, fraternity, gravimetry, hereditary, interlayer, intermarry, interparty, literarily, martyrized, martyrizes, radiometry, regularity, trierarchy, tyrannizer, unliterary, veterinary.

 

+4 letters: arrestingly, calorimetry, contrariety, craniometry, cryptomeria, denigratory, erratically, erythremias, erythrismal, imprecatory, intercalary, interlayers, interlunary, irrefutably, meritocracy, narratively, nonliterary, platyrrhine, polarimetry, predicatory, preliterary, prematurity, proprietary, pyrargyrite, reactionary, rehydrating, rehydration, respiratory, retaliatory, rudimentary, subliterary, temporarily, tyrannizers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: RETIARY


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

52 45 54 49 41 52 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)

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

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