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MAYBIRD

Definitions: MAYBIRD

MAYBIRD

Noun

1. The bobolink.

2. The knot.

3. The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "MAYBIRD" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Anagrams: MAYBIRD

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-i-m-r-y"
	-1 letter: myriad.
	-2 letters: ambry, barmy, braid, dairy, diary, mbira, rabid, yaird.
	-3 letters: abri, airy, amid, amir, arid, army, bard, barm, bima, bird, brad, bray, brim, darb, drab, dram, dray, drib, iamb, maid, mair, miry, raid, rami, rimy, yard, yird.
	-4 letters: aby, aid, aim, air, ami, arb, arm, bad, bam, bar, bay, bid, bra, dab, dam.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-d-i-m-r-y"
	+2 letters: admirably, bipyramid, dithyramb, hybridoma.
	+3 letters: bipyramids, dithyrambs, formidably, hybridomas.
	+4 letters: bipyramidal, dithyrambic.
	+5 letters: admirability, determinably, imponderably, irredeemably, irremediably.
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Alternative Orthography: MAYBIRD

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

4D 41 59 42 49 52 44

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

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

⁼

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)

01001101 01000001 01011001 01000010 01001001 01010010 01000100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#65 &#89 &#66 &#73 &#82 &#68

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0041 0059 0042 0049 0052 0044

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

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

47355936435238

INDEX

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

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