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SIXTEEN-STRING JACK

Specialty Definition: SIXTEEN-STRING JACK

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Sixteen-string Jack John Rann, a highwayman, noted for his foppery. He wore sixteen tags, eight at each knee. (Hanged in 1774.)
"Dr. Johnson said that Gray's poetry towered above the ordinary run of verse as Sixteen-string Jack above the ordinary foot-pad."- Bosioell: Life of Johnson. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: SIXTEEN-STRING JACK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-i-i-j-k-n-n-r-s-s-t-t-x"

-4 letters: astringencies, intricateness, necessitating.

-5 letters: exactingness, interjecting, intersecting, stringencies, transiencies.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SIXTEEN-STRING JACK


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

53 49 58 54 45 45 4E 2D 53 54 52 49 4E 47      4A 41 43 4B

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

    

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

01010011 01001001 01011000 01010100 01000101 01000101 01001110 00101101 01010011 01010100 01010010 01001001 01001110 01000111 00100000 01001010 01000001 01000011 01001011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#73 &#88 &#84 &#69 &#69 &#78 &#45 &#83 &#84 &#82 &#73 &#78 &#71 &#32 &#74 &#65 &#67 &#75

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0049 0058 0054 0045 0045 004E 002D 0053 0054 0052 0049 004E 0047      004A 0041 0043 004B

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

5343585439394815535452434841244353745

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