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Date "WISHING-CAP" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1792. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Wishing-cap Fortunatus had an inexhaustible purse and a wishing-cap, but these gifts proved the ruin of himself and his sons. The object of the tale is to show the vanity of human prosperity. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Spell | Wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: WISHING-CAP |
| Specialty definitions using "WISHING-CAP": Fortunatus. (references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-h-i-i-n-p-s-w" | |
-2 letters: pshawing. | |
-3 letters: cashing, chasing, chawing, hasping, pachisi, pashing, phasing, piscina, pishing, scaping, shaping, shawing, spacing, spicing, spinach, swiping, washing, wishing, wisping. | |
-4 letters: aching, anisic, ashing, casing, casini, cawing, chains, changs, chinas, hawing, icings, ischia, pacing, painch, panics, pawing, phasic, pianic, sawing, siping, whangs, wigans, winish, wiping, wising. | |
-5 letters: acing, acini, aphis, aping, apish, aspic. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 49 53 48 49 4E 47 2D 43 41 50 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01001001 01010011 01001000 01001001 01001110 01000111 00101101 01000011 01000001 01010000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W I S H I N G - C A P |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0049 0053 0048 0049 004E 0047 002D 0043 0041 0050 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5743534243484115373550 |
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