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ABBEY LAIRD

Specialty Definition: ABBEY LAIRD

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Abbey Laird (An). An insolvent debtor sheltered by the precincts of Holyrood Abbey.
"As diligence cannot be proceeded with on Sunday, the Abbey Lairds (as they were jocularly called) were enabled to come forth on that day to mingle in our society." - R. Chambers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: ABBEY LAIRD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-d-e-i-l-r-y"

-2 letters: bearably, diablery, radiable, readably.

-3 letters: already, beadily, bedrail, bilayer, brailed, dabbler, dibbler, drabble, dribble, dribbly, dryable, rabbled, rabidly, radiale, readily, ridable.

-4 letters: abelia, abider, abrade, aerial, aerily, arable, aridly, ariled, babied, bailed, bailer, bailey, balder, barbal, barbed, barbel, barely, barley, bayard, belady, birled, blared, bleary, brayed, bready, bribed, bridal, bridle, byrled, dabber, dabble.

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

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Alternative Orthography: ABBEY LAIRD


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

41 42 42 45 59      4C 41 49 52 44

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

    

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

01000001 01000010 01000010 01000101 01011001 00100000 01001100 01000001 01001001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#66 &#66 &#69 &#89 &#32 &#76 &#65 &#73 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0042 0042 0045 0059      004C 0041 0049 0052 0044

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

353636395924635435238

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