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Ringworms

"Ringworms" is a plural of: ringworm.

Date "Ringworms" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Specialty Definition: Ringworms

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Dream Interpretation

To dream of having ringworms appear on you, you will have a slight illness, and some exasperating difficulty in the near future.
To see them on others, beggars and appeals for charity will beset you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

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

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Misspellings: Ringworms

Misspellings

"Ringworms" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ragworms, ringworks. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Ringworms

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "g-i-m-n-o-r-r-s-w"

-1 letter: misgrown, ringworm.

-2 letters: misgrow, mowings, rowings, worming.

-3 letters: girons, grison, groins, minors, morris, mowing, ogrism, rigors, rosing, rowing, signor, soring, sowing, wrings, wrongs.

-4 letters: girns, giron, giros, gismo, gowns, grins, groin, grown, grows, irons, minor, morns, noirs, noris, norms, ornis, orris, owing, rigor, rings, rosin, swing, sworn, wings, winos, worms, wring, wrong.

-5 letters: gins, girn.

 Words containing the letters "g-i-m-n-o-r-r-s-w"
 

+4 letters: microbrewings, warmongerings.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Ringworms


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

52 69 6E 67 77 6F 72 6D 73

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)

01010010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110111 01101111 01110010 01101101 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#105 &#110 &#103 &#119 &#111 &#114 &#109 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0069 006E 0067 0077 006F 0072 006D 0073

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

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

527580738981847985

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INDEX

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


  

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