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Definition: ASTONY |
ASTONYTransitive verb1. To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. |
Date "ASTONY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references) |
Note: Astony \As*ton"y\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Astonied; present participle verb or noun Astonying. See Astone.]. (Websters 1913) |
Crosswords: ASTONY |
| English words defined with "ASTONY": Astonying. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ASTONY": Astun. (references) |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ASTONY": astonying. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "ASTONY" (pronounced 'As*ton"y'): stony. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-n-o-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: antsy, atony, nasty, santo, stony, tansy. | |
-2 letters: ants, naos, nays, nosy, nota, oast, oats, snot, soya, stay, stoa, tans, taos, tons, tony, toys. | |
-3 letters: ant, any, ays, nay, nos, not, oat, ons, sat, say, son, sot, soy, sty, syn, tan, tao, tas, ton, toy, yon. | |
-4 letters: an, as, at, ay, na, no, on, os. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-n-o-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: aroynts. | |
+2 letters: anolytes, antonyms, bayonets, dystonia, lanosity, sovranty, stramony, tachyons, tardyons. | |
+3 letters: animosity, antistory, astonying, astronomy, asyndeton, attorneys, autodynes, barytones, caryotins, constancy, contrasty, corybants, crayonist, dynatrons, dystonias, dystopian, gyrations, karyotins, monastery, myotonias, nonsteady, obstinacy, oysterman, pantyhose, ponytails, signatory, sycophant, syncopate, tautonyms, tyrannous. | |
+4 letters: actomyosin, acylations, amyotonias, anisotropy, anthocyans, antonymies, antonymous, arytenoids, asyndetons, autolysing, autopsying, chatoyants, constantly, copayments, corybantes, crayonists, dynamotors, gastronomy, hydrations, hypotonias, isocyanate, nematocyst, obeisantly, outstaying, oxygenates, personalty, polyanthas, polyanthus, postulancy, resonantly, sanctimony, shantytown, stationary, stationery, sycophants, syncopated, syncopates, syncopator, syndicator, synoptical, thyratrons, transitory, tyrosinase, wyandottes. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 53 54 4F 4E 59 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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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)01000001 01010011 01010100 01001111 01001110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A S T O N Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0053 0054 004F 004E 0059 |
| 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)355354494859 |
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