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SQUAIL

Definition: SQUAIL

SQUAIL

Intransitive verb

1. To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Squail \Squail\, intransitive verb. To throw sticls at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly. [Provincial English]. (Websters 1913)


Anagrams: SQUAIL

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quails.

Words within the letters "a-i-l-q-s-u"

-1 letter: quail, quais, quasi.

-2 letters: ails, quai, sail, saul, sial.

-3 letters: ail, ais, als, las, lis, qua, sal, sau, suq.

-4 letters: ai, al, as, is, la, li, si, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-i-l-q-s-u"
 

+1 letter: pasquil, siliqua, squalid, squilla.

 

+2 letters: alfaquis, aliquots, equalise, liquates, pasquils, qualmish, queasily, quillais, quinelas, quintals, siliquae, siliquas, squillae, squillas, tequilas.

 

+3 letters: alfaquins, appliques, equalised, equaliser, equalises, equalizes, odalisque, qualifies, qualities, qualmiest, quantiles, quartiles, quillaias, quillajas, quinellas, quinielas, requitals, squalider, squalidly, squallier, squalling, squashily, squealing.

 

+4 letters: acquittals, aquilegias, clinquants, disqualify, equalisers, equalising, equalities, equalizers, harlequins, liquations, liquidates, loquacious, odalisques, palanquins, quadrilles, qualifiers, qualmishly, quesadilla, quillbacks, quitclaims, rainsquall, sequential, squabbling, squalidest, squalliest, squarishly.

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

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Alternative Orthography: SQUAIL


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

53 51 55 41 49 4C

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

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    --.-    ..-    .-    ..    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010011 01010001 01010101 01000001 01001001 01001100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#81 &#85 &#65 &#73 &#76

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0051 0055 0041 0049 004C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

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

535155354346

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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