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UNHOUSELLED

Date "UNHOUSELLED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1883. (references)


Specialty Definition: UNHOUSELLED

DomainDefinition

Literature

Unhouselled (3 syl.). Without having had the Eucharist in the hour of death. To housel is to administer the "sacrament" to the sick in danger of death. Housel is the Saxon husel (the Eucharist). Lye derives it from the Gothic hunsa (a victim). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: UNHOUSELLED

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-l-l-n-o-s-u-u"

-1 letter: unhouseled.

-2 letters: houselled, unshelled.

-3 letters: ensouled, houseled, unhoused.

-4 letters: delouse, duellos, helloed, helloes, hondles, hulloed, hulloes, loudens, lunules, nodules, shelled, snelled, unhouse, unshell.

-5 letters: dholes, donees, duello, eludes, endues, ensoul, ensued, helled, hellos, holden, hondle, hounds, housed, housel, hulled, hullos, lensed, leones, leudes, lodens, louden, loused, lunule, lushed, nodule, noshed, nulled, should, souled, sullen, undoes.

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

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Alternative Orthography: UNHOUSELLED


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

55 4E 48 4F 55 53 45 4C 4C 45 44

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)

01010101 01001110 01001000 01001111 01010101 01010011 01000101 01001100 01001100 01000101 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#85 &#78 &#72 &#79 &#85 &#83 &#69 &#76 &#76 &#69 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0055 004E 0048 004F 0055 0053 0045 004C 004C 0045 0044

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

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

5548424955533946463938

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2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
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