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DRAGON SLAYERS

Specialty Definition: DRAGON SLAYERS

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Dragon Slayers
(1) St. Philip the Apostle is said to have destroyed a huge dragon at Hierapolis, in Phrygia.
(2) St. Martha killed the terrible dragon called Tarasque at Aix (la Chapelle).
(3) St. Florent killed a dragon which haunted the Loire.
(4) St. Cado, St. Maudet, and St. Paul did similar feats in Brittany.
(5) St. Keyne of Cornwall slew a dragon.
(6) St. Michael, St. George, St. Margaret, Pope Sylvester, St. Samson (Archbishop of Dol), Donatus (fourth century), St. Clement of Metz, and many others, killed dragons.
(7) St. Romain of Rouen destroyed the huge dragon called La Gargouille, which ravaged the Seine. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Anagrams: DRAGON SLAYERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-g-l-n-o-r-r-s-s-y"

-4 letters: analysers, grassland, seladangs, solanders.

-5 letters: adorners, adrenals, agaroses, analysed, analyser, analyses, arranged, arranges, arsenals, danglers, drayages, droseras, garlands, gladness, glanders, glossary, goldarns, granolas, grayness, groaners, ladrones, lanyards, largando, larynges, lasagnes, lysogens, nosegays, orangery, raygrass, readorns, realgars, reynards, roadless, ryegrass, seasonal, seladang, serranos, slanders, snarlers, solander, yardages, yearlong.

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

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Alternative Orthography: DRAGON SLAYERS


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

44 52 41 47 4F 4E      53 4C 41 59 45 52 53

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

    

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

01000100 01010010 01000001 01000111 01001111 01001110 00100000 01010011 01001100 01000001 01011001 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#82 &#65 &#71 &#79 &#78 &#32 &#83 &#76 &#65 &#89 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0052 0041 0047 004F 004E      0053 004C 0041 0059 0045 0052 0053

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

385235414948253463559395253

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