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Definition: STAVESACRE |
STAVESACRENoun1. A kind of larkspur (Delphinium Staphysagria), and its seeds, which are violently purgative and emetic. They are used as a parasiticide, and in the East for poisoning fish. |
Date "STAVESACRE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
Etymology: Stavesacre \Staves"a`cre\, noun. [Corrupted from New Latin staphis agria, Greek dried grape wild.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: STAVESACRE |
| English words defined with "STAVESACRE": Delphinic, Delphinine. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
stavesacre | 47 |
lyrics stavesacre | 8 |
stavesacre tab | 3 |
good lyrics people stavesacre suffer why | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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Words beginning with "STAVESACRE": stavesacres. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-r-s-s-t-v" | |
-2 letters: acervate, caseates, cateress, cerastes, crevasse. | |
-3 letters: acerate, actress, aerates, caesars, carates, casease, caseate, casters, caveats, cerates, cravats, creases, creates, cresset, easters, ecartes, ectases, recasts, reseats, resects, revests, savates, scarves, searest, seaters, secrets, starves, teasers, tessera, vacates, versets, verstes. | |
-4 letters: aerate, arecas, aretes, assert, asters, averse, averts, caesar, carate, carats, caress, carets, carses, cartes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-r-s-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: stavesacres. | |
+4 letters: attractiveness. | |
+5 letters: comparativeness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 54 41 56 45 53 41 43 52 45 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... - .- ...- . ... .- -.-. .-. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01010100 01000001 01010110 01000101 01010011 01000001 01000011 01010010 01000101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S T A V E S A C R E |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0054 0041 0056 0045 0053 0041 0043 0052 0045 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53543556395335375239 |
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