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SAGITTARY

Definitions: SAGITTARY

SAGITTARY

Adjective

1. Pertaining to, or resembling, an arrow.

Noun

1. The Arsenal in Venice; -- so called from having a figure of an archer over the door.

2. A centaur; a fabulous being, half man, half horse, armed with a bow and quiver.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "SAGITTARY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1602. (references)

"SAGITTARY" is a common misspelling or typo for: sanitary.



Specialty Definitions: SAGITTARY

DomainDefinitions

Literature

Sagittary A terrible archer, half beast and half man, whose eyes sparkled like fire, and struck dead like lightning. He is introduced into the Trojan armies by Guido da Colonna.
"The dreadful Sagittary
Appals our numbers."
Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida, v. 5. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Modern Translations: SAGITTARY

Language Translations for "sagittary"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Pig Latin

  

agittarysay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SAGITTARY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-g-i-r-s-t-t-y"

-2 letters: yttrias.

-3 letters: agrias, arista, artist, astray, attars, gratis, gritty, riatas, strait, strata, strati, taigas, tarsia, tatars, tiaras, traits, yttria.

-4 letters: agars, agist, agria, airts, arias, artsy, astir, atria, attar, gaits, girts, grays, grist, grits, ragas, ragis, raias, ratty, rayas, riata, saiga, satay, satyr, sitar, stagy, staig, stair, start, stray, stria, taiga, tarsi, tarts, tarty, tasty, tatar, tiara, tragi, trait, trays, trigs, tryst, yagis.

-5 letters: agar, agas, airs, airt, airy, aits, aria, arts, arty, gait, gars, gast, gats, gays, girt, gist, gits, grat, gray, grit, gyri, raga, ragi, rags, raia, rats, raya, rays, rias, rigs, ryas, saga, sagy, sari, sati, stag, star, stat, stay, stir, tags, tars, tart, tats, tits, tray, trig, tsar, yagi.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-g-i-r-s-t-t-y"
 

+2 letters: straightway.

 

+3 letters: straightaway, stratigraphy.

 

+4 letters: geostationary, straightaways, strategically.

 

+5 letters: stagflationary, transmigratory.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SAGITTARY


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

53 41 47 49 54 54 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)

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

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

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

01010011 01000001 01000111 01001001 01010100 01010100 01000001 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#65 &#71 &#73 &#84 &#84 &#65 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0041 0047 0049 0054 0054 0041 0052 0059

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

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

533541435454355259

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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