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WITCH-FINDER

Specialty Definition: WITCH-FINDER

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Witch-finder Matthew Hopkins, who, in the middle of the seventeenth century, travelled through the castern counties to find out witches. At last Hopkins himself was tested by his own rule. Being cast into a river, he floated, was declared to be a wizard, and was put to death. (See above, Hammer for Witches.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: WITCH-FINDER

Specialty definitions using "WITCH-FINDER": Inventors Punished. (references)

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Anagrams: WITCH-FINDER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-d-e-f-h-i-i-n-r-t-w"

-3 letters: indicter, indirect, reindict, witchier.

-4 letters: cithern, cithren, citrine, crinite, deficit, dictier, dineric, ditcher, fitchew, hircine, ichnite, identic, incited, inciter, inditer, inherit, itchier, neritic, niftier, nitchie, nitride, twinier, whinier, whitier, wiftier, winched, wincher, windier, witched, withier, writhed, writhen.

-5 letters: chider, chined, chitin, cinder, cither, citied, citrin, credit, cretin, deific, dicier, direct, dither, dreich, drench.

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

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Alternative Orthography: WITCH-FINDER


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

57 49 54 43 48 2D 46 49 4E 44 45 52

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

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

01010111 01001001 01010100 01000011 01001000 00101101 01000110 01001001 01001110 01000100 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#73 &#84 &#67 &#72 &#45 &#70 &#73 &#78 &#68 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0049 0054 0043 0048 002D 0046 0049 004E 0044 0045 0052

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

574354374215404348383952

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3. Orthography
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