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TYRIAN DYE

Definition: TYRIAN DYE

TYRIAN DYE

1. A celebrated purple dye prepared in ancient Tyre from several mollusks, especially Ianthina, Murex, and Purpura. See the Note under Purple , n., 1, and Purple of mollusca , under Purple , n.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TYRIAN DYE

English words defined with "TYRIAN DYE": Purple of mollusca. (references)

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Anagrams: TYRIAN DYE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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

-2 letters: antired, detrain, dietary, tindery, trained.

-3 letters: airted, ardent, dainty, denari, denary, detain, nitery, rained, ranted, ratine, retain, retina, rident, tinder, tirade, trendy, trined, yarned.

-4 letters: aider, aired, anted, antre, dairy, dater, deair, deary, deity, denar, derat, deray, diary, dinar, diner, dirty, drain, entia, entry, inert, inter, irade, irate, nadir, nerdy, niter, nitre, rainy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: TYRIAN DYE


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

54 59 52 49 41 4E      44 59 45

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

    

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

01010100 01011001 01010010 01001001 01000001 01001110 00100000 01000100 01011001 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#89 &#82 &#73 &#65 &#78 &#32 &#68 &#89 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0059 0052 0049 0041 004E      0044 0059 0045

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

5459524335482385939

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INDEX

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


  

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