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Literature | Xanthos [reddish yellow ]. Achilles' wonderful horse. Being chid by his master for leaving Patroclos on the field of battle, the horse turned his head reproachfully, and told Achilles that he also would soon be numbered with the dead, not from any fault of his horse, but by the decree of inexorable destiny. (Iliad, xix.) (Compare Numbers xxii. 28-30.) Xanthos and Balios (swift as the wind) were the offspring of Podarge the harpy and Zephyros. (See Horse.) Xanthos, the river of Troas. Elian and Pliny say that Homer called the Scamander "Xanthos" or the "Gold-red river," because it coloured with such a tinge the fleeces of sheep washed in its waters. Others maintain that it was so called because a hero named Xanthos defeated a body of Trojans on its banks, and pushed half of them into the stream, as in the battle of Blenheim the Duke of Marlborough drove the French into the Danube. Xanthus. A large shell like those ascribed to the Tritons. The volutes generally run from right to left; and if the Indians find a shell with the volutes running in the contrary direction, they persist that one of their gods has got into the shell for concealment. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| "XANTHOS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "XANTHOS" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
xanthos | 8 |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-n-o-s-t-x" | |
-1 letter: taxons. | |
-2 letters: axons, hants, hosta, oaths, santo, shoat, snath, taxon. | |
-3 letters: ants, axon, hant, hast, hats, hoax, hons, host, hots, naos, nosh, nota, oast, oath, oats, shat, shot, snot, soth, stoa, tans, taos, than, tons, tosh. | |
-4 letters: ant, ash, hao, has, hat, hon, hot, nah, noh, nos, not, nth, oat, ohs, ons, sat, sax. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-n-o-s-t-x" | |
+1 letter: xanthous. | |
+2 letters: xanthomas, xanthones. | |
+3 letters: exhaustion, toxaphenes. | |
+4 letters: exhalations, exhaustions, exhumations, saxophonist. | |
+5 letters: asphyxiation, exhortations, fucoxanthins, hematoxylins, heteroauxins, phytoalexins, saxophonists, thromboxanes, xanthophylls. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)58 41 4E 54 48 4F 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-..- .- -. - .... --- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01011000 01000001 01001110 01010100 01001000 01001111 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)X A N T H O S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0058 0041 004E 0054 0048 004F 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)58354854424953 |
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