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VOLERY

Definitions: VOLERY

VOLERY

Noun

1. A large bird cage; an aviary.

2. A flight of birds.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Volery \Vol"er*y\, noun. [French expression volerie flying, voli[`e]re large bird cage, from voler to fly, from Latin expression volare. See Volatile.]. (Websters 1913)

Modern Translations: VOLERY

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

Portuguese

  

aviário (aviary). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "VOLERY"

Words rhyming with "VOLERY" (pronounced 'Vol"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy. (additional references)

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Anagrams: VOLERY

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: overly.

Words within the letters "e-l-o-r-v-y"

-1 letter: lover.

-2 letters: levo, levy, lore, lory, love, lyre, orle, over, oyer, rely, role, rove, very, vole, yore.

-3 letters: lev, ley, lye, ole, ore, rev, roe, rye, voe.

-4 letters: el, er, lo, oe, or, oy, re, ye, yo.

 Words containing the letters "e-l-o-r-v-y"
 

+1 letter: flyover, layover, loverly, overfly, overlay, overply, overtly.

 

+2 letters: covertly, flyovers, layovers, levogyre, overholy, overlays, overplay, overwily, provenly, volleyer.

 

+3 letters: nervously, obversely, overlying, overplays, removably, verbosely, volleyers.

 

+4 letters: abortively, alveolarly, coercively, conversely, grievously, levorotary, observably, overflying, overlaying, overplayed, overplying, oversimply, oversupply, previously, ravenously, revelatory, rotatively, sportively, viperously, yourselves.

 

+5 letters: cavernously, convertibly, corrosively, formatively, grovelingly, hortatively, irremovably, irrevocably, marvelously, nondelivery, nonverbally, normatively, observantly, observingly, obtrusively, operatively, overanalyze, overplaying, providently, purposively, reprovingly, revoltingly, sovereignly, valedictory, vectorially, ventilatory, ventriloquy, venturously, veraciously, viceroyalty.

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

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Alternative Orthography: VOLERY


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

56 4F 4C 45 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)

01010110 01001111 01001100 01000101 01010010 01011001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#86 &#79 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#89

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0056 004F 004C 0045 0052 0059

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

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

564946395259

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INDEX

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


  

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