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Definition: Nigher |
NigherAdverb1. (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance; "come closer, my dear!"; "they drew nearer"; "getting nearer to the true explanation". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "nigher" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references) |
Synonyms: NigherSynonyms: closer (adv), nearer (adv). (additional references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | He made a step nigher, and discovered the scarlet letter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hinger. | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
-1 letter: hinge, neigh, reign, renig. | |
-2 letters: gien, girn, grin, heir, hern, hire, nigh, rein, ring. | |
-3 letters: eng, erg, ern, gen, ghi, gie, gin, hen, her, hie, hin, ire, reg, rei, rig, rin. | |
-4 letters: eh, en, er, he, hi, in, ne, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-h-i-n-r" | |
+1 letter: gherkin, hearing, heiring, herding, herring, hingers, rehinge. | |
+2 letters: adhering, berthing, brighten, cheering, cohering, earthing, euchring, freshing, frighten, gherkins, greenish, grinches, hangfire, havering, hearings, hearsing, hearting, herrings, herrying, hireling, homering, hovering, hungrier, ingather, inhering, narghile, nargileh, neighbor, ochering, perching, reaching, rehinged, rehinges, rehiring, retching, shearing, sheering, shingler, shrewing, sphering, ushering. | |
+3 letters: ashlering, berhyming, bothering, breaching, breathing, breeching, brightens, chagrined, ciphering, coshering, creeshing, cyphering, dehorning, dehorting, dithering, drenching, earthling, enriching, exhorting, fathering, frenching, frightens, garnished, garnishee, garnishes, gathering, gheraoing, hagridden, haltering, hammering, hampering, hangfires, hankering, harbinger, hardening, harkening, hectoring, heralding, heroizing, hindering, hirelings, hirseling, hollering, humdinger, hungering, hungriest, hunkering, infighter, ingathers, inveigher, kashering, koshering, lathering, lechering, lengthier, lightener, mothering, narghiles, nargilehs, naughtier, neighbors, neighbour, nightmare, nightwear, overnight, perishing, pothering, preaching, prehiring, rechewing, reechoing, rehabbing, rehanging, rehashing, rehearing, reheating, reheeling, rehemming, rehinging, rehousing, relishing, reshaping, reshaving, reshingle, reshining, reshoeing, reshowing, retighten, rewashing, richening, rightness, searching, shearings, shearling, shinglers, shivering, showering, shredding, shrieking, shrieving, shrinkage, syphering, tethering, threading, threaping, threating, threeping, threshing, tightener, tochering, trenching, wherrying, withering, wreathing, wrenching, wuthering. | |
+4 letters: anglerfish, archegonia, becharming, beshrewing, bethorning, betrothing, blathering, blethering, blithering, breathings, breechings, brightened, brightener, brightness, brothering, burthening, butchering, cashiering, chaffering, chagrinned, chambering, chamfering, chaptering, charminger, chartering, chattering, checkering, chequering, cherishing, chippering, chirurgeon, chittering, choppering, chowdering, chuntering, coinhering, crocheting, dethroning, earthlings, enshrining, ensphering, enthroning, etherizing, everything, feathering, fingerhold, fishmonger, freighting, freshening, frightened, furthering, garishness, garnisheed, garnishees, gatherings, greenfinch, gunfighter, gynarchies, harbingers, hardenings, harnessing, harshening, harvesting, headspring, hearkening, heartening, hebraizing, herniating, highbinder, highlander, hirselling, hoarsening, holstering, humdingers, hungriness, inearthing, infighters, ingathered, inheriting, insphering, inveighers, kingfisher, languisher, leathering, lighteners, lightering, longhaired, mishearing, murthering, neighbored, neighborly, neighbours, nightdress, nightmares, outhearing, overhating, overhoping, overhyping, overnights, philtering, phrensying, prehearing, preheating, preshaping, preshowing, prewashing, ratcheting, rechanging, recharging, recharting, rechecking, rechoosing, reclothing, refighting, refreshing, rehandling, rehearings, rehearsing, relighting, rematching, repatching, rephrasing, reshingled, reshingles, reshipping, reshooting, resighting, reteaching, rethinking, retightens, retouching, reweighing, ringhalses, roughening, schmeering, screeching, shanghaier, sharpening, shattering, shearlings, sheltering, shimmering, shoestring, shortening, shrinkages, shriveling, shuddering, shuttering, skreeghing, skreighing, slathering, slithering, smothering, springhead, straighten, stretching, swithering, telphering, theorising, theorizing, thundering, tighteners, trephining, trichogyne, unearthing, unsphering, upreaching, vinegarish, vouchering, weathering, wharfinger, whickering, whimpering, whispering. | |
+5 letters: archangelic, archegonial, archegonium, atherogenic, bedrenching, bescorching, beshivering, beshrouding, besmirching, brighteners, brightening, chaperoning, charmingest, checkrowing, chirurgeons, chivareeing, cholinergic, christening, chromogenic, cliffhanger, deciphering, dehydrating, disheriting, earthmoving, enciphering, encroaching, enravishing, enshrouding, enthralling, entrenching, enwreathing, etherifying, farthingale, featherings, fingerholds, fishmongers, flichtering, foreshowing, frightening, gangsterish, garnishment, generalship, girlishness, godchildren, graphicness, grouchiness, growthiness, gunfighters, handwringer, harbingered, headsprings, heartstring, hectoringly, herringbone, heterogonic, hibernating, highbinders, highlanders, homeporting, homogenizer, hotpressing, huckstering, inbreathing, ingathering, interchange, intergrowth, intrenching, kingfishers, languishers, managership, menorrhagia, merchanting, moonlighter, morphogenic, nearsighted, negrophobia, neighboring, neighboured, nightwalker, outhomering, outreaching, overarching, overfishing, overhanding, overhanging, overhauling, overheaping, overhearing, overheating, overholding, overhunting, overnighted, overnighter, overtighten, pigeonholer, preachingly, prechecking, prechilling, prehearings, prepunching, prophesying, reattaching, rebranching, redshirting, refinishing, regathering, rehammering, rehardening, rehydrating, relaunching, renographic, repolishing, reproaching, reschooling, researching, reshingling, reshuffling, resketching, resmoothing, restitching, rethreading, retightened, retrenching, ricocheting, rightnesses, roguishness, roughhewing, scouthering, searchingly, semaphoring, sepulchring, shanghaiers, shepherding, shivareeing, shoehorning, shoestrings, shortenings, shouldering, shrivelling, springheads, springhouse, straightens, superhyping, surgeonfish, threatening, trichogynes, unbreeching, underweight, ungarnished, unrighteous, unsightlier, untethering, unthreading, unwreathing, upgathering, uprightness, warehousing, weatherings, wharfingers, whisperings, witheringly, wrenchingly, yesternight. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 69 67 68 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. .. --. .... . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101001 01100111 01101000 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N i g h e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0069 0067 0068 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)487573747184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Quotations: Fiction 4. Anagrams | 5. Orthography 6. Bibliography |
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