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BYSSINE

Definition: BYSSINE

BYSSINE

Adjective

1. Made of silk; having a silky or flaxlike appearance.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Byssine \Bys"sine\, adjective. [Latin expression byssinus made of byssus, Greek by`ssinos See Byssus.]. (Websters 1913)


Modern Translation: BYSSINE

Language Translations for "BYSSINE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hebrew 

  

×¤×©×ª× ×™ (flaxen), ×"ומ×" למשי, ב×" פשתן. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

yssinebay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Rhyming with "BYSSINE"

Words rhyming with "BYSSINE" (pronounced 'Bys"sine'): Alphonsine, Ardassine, Arsine, COSINE, Molossine, Narcissine, Neossine, Rusine, ursine. (additional references)

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Anagrams: BYSSINE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-s-s-y"

-2 letters: bines, bises, byssi, inbye, sines, snibs, snyes.

-3 letters: bens, beys, bine, bins, bise, byes, inby, nebs, ness, nibs, seis, sibs, sine, sins, snib, snye, syne, yens, yins.

-4 letters: ben, bey, bin, bis, bye, bys, ens, ess, ins, neb, nib, sei, sen, sib, sin, sis, syn, yen, yes, yin.

-5 letters: be, bi, by, en, es.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-s-s-y"
 

+1 letter: sensibly.

 

+3 letters: boyishness, byssinoses, insensibly, ostensibly.

 

+4 letters: brainlessly, responsibly, sensibility.

 

+5 letters: biosyntheses, biosynthesis, boyishnesses, fibrinolyses, inaccessibly, isobutylenes, subserviency.

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

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Alternative Orthography: BYSSINE


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

42 59 53 53 49 4E 45

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)

01000010 01011001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01001110 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#89 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#78 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0059 0053 0053 0049 004E 0045

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

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

36595353434839

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Translations: Modern
3. Rhymes
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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