Tempest-tost

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Tempest-tost

Definition: Tempest-tost

Tempest-tost

Adjective

1. Pounded or hit repeatedly by storms or adversities.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Date "tempest-tost" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1817. (references)

Synonyms: Tempest-tost

Synonyms: buffeted (adj), storm-tossed (adj), tempest-swept (adj), tempest-tossed (adj). (additional references)

Commercial Usage: Tempest-tost

Domain	Title
Books	The Salterton Trilogy: Tempest-Tost, Leaven of Malice and a Mixture of Frailties (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Tempest-tost

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-m-o-p-s-s-t-t-t-t"
	-3 letters: posttest, tempests.
	-4 letters: mesteso, metopes, mostest, poetess, septets, tempest.
	-5 letters: emotes, eposes, estops, metope, motets, mottes, pestos, posset, ptoses, septet, sestet, setose, steeps, stomps, stopes, tempos, tempts, testes, tmeses, topees, totems, tsetse.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Tempest-tost

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

54 65 6D 70 65 73 74 2D 74 6F 73 74

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

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

01010100 01100101 01101101 01110000 01100101 01110011 01110100 00101101 01110100 01101111 01110011 01110100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#109 &#112 &#101 &#115 &#116 &#45 &#116 &#111 &#115 &#116

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006D 0070 0065 0073 0074 002D 0074 006F 0073 0074

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

547179827185861586818586

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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