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BID-ALE

Specialty Definition: BID-ALE

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Bid-ale An invitation of friends to assemble at the house of a poor man to drink ale, and thus to raise alms for his relief.
"The ordinary amusements in country parishes (in 1632) were church-ales. clerk-ales, and bid-ales, . . . consisting of drinking and sports, particularly dancing."- T. V. Short, D. D.: History of the Church of England, p. 392.
"Denham, in 1634, issued an order in the western circuit to put an end to the disorders attending church-ales, bid-ales, clerk-ales, and the like."- Howitt: History of England (Charles I., chap. iii. p. 159). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: BID-ALE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bailed.

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

-1 letter: abide, ailed, baled, bield, blade, ideal.

-2 letters: abed, able, aide, bade, bail, bald, bale, bead, bide, bile, blae, bled, dale, deal, deil, deli, dial, diel, idea, idle, ilea, lade, laid, lead, lied.

-3 letters: aid, ail, alb, ale, bad, bal, bed, bel, bid, dab, dal, deb, del, dib, die, eld, lab, lad, lea, led.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-l"
 

+1 letter: addible, alibied, audible, baldies, beadily, bedrail, bipedal, brailed, disable, hidable, piebald, ridable.

 

+2 letters: abseiled, audibles, beadlike, bedrails, beladied, beladies, bewailed, biasedly, biddable, bidental, bilander, billhead, bindable, bivalved, blindage, brailled, buddleia, calibred, deniable, deniably, diablery, dimmable, dippable, disabled, disables, drivable, dutiable, editable, evadible, findable, gimbaled, guidable, imbalmed, imblazed, labiated, librated, mandible, oxidable, piebalds, radiable, rideable, semibald, slidable, voidable, windable.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BID-ALE


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

42 49 44 2D 41 4C 45

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

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

01000010 01001001 01000100 00101101 01000001 01001100 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#68 &#45 &#65 &#76 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0044 002D 0041 004C 0045

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

36433815354639

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