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PRISAGE

Definition: PRISAGE

PRISAGE

Noun

1. The share of merchandise taken as lawful prize at sea which belongs to the king or admiral.

2. A right belonging to the crown of England, of taking two tuns of wine from every ship importing twenty tuns or more, -- one before and one behind the mast. By charter of Edward I. butlerage was substituted for this.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Prisage \Pris"age\, noun. [Old French expression prisage praising, valuing, taxing; compare to late Latin prisagium prisage; or from French prise taking, capture, prize. See Prize.]. (Websters 1913)


Rhyming with "PRISAGE"

Words rhyming with "PRISAGE" (pronounced 'Pris"age'): Abusage, Accourage, Adage, Adjustage, Alloyage, Amperage, Appendage, Arrearage, Berthage, Blindage, blockage, Boatage, Bondage, Borage, Bordage, Bossage, Breakage, Brewage, Buoyage, Burgage, Careenage, Cartage, Centage, Checkage, Chiefage, Clearage, Cloudage, Clownage, Coinage, Corage, Cordage, Corkage, Costage, Couage, Courage, Cranage, Crimpage, Cuinage, Encourage, Endamage, Escheatage, Floodage, Floorage, flowage, Foldage, Fraughtage, freightage, Frequentage, frontage, fruitage. (additional references)

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Anagrams: PRISAGE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-p-r-s"

-1 letter: aspire, gapers, gasper, grapes, gripes, pagers, parges, paries, praise, sagier, sparge, spirea.

-2 letters: aegis, agers, apers, apres, arise, asper, gaper, gapes, gears, grape, grasp, gripe, grips, pager, pages, pairs, paise, pares, parge, paris, parse, peags, pears, peris, piers, prase, presa, pries, prigs, prise, rages, ragis, raise, rapes, reaps, ripes, sager, sarge, sepia.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-p-r-s"
 

+1 letter: epigrams, garpikes, grapiest, primages, spearing.

 

+2 letters: arpeggios, aspersing, bagpipers, disparage, epigraphs, escarping, graperies, graphites, grapiness, graplines, parridges, pillagers, preassign, presaging, progerias, relapsing, repassing, repasting, reshaping, respacing, respading, serigraph, spanglier, spreading, trapesing, umpirages.

 

+3 letters: angiosperm, asparagine, asperating, aspergilla, aspergilli, carpetings, despairing, disparaged, disparager, disparages, epigastric, epiphragms, gingersnap, grapevines, graphemics, headspring, ideographs, megasporic, paganizers, panegyrics, panegyrist, papergirls, paregorics, parentings, pargylines, partridges, pellagrins, persiflage, persuading, pilferages, pingrasses, plagiaries, plagiarise, plastering, pleasuring, preassigns, precasting, prepasting, preshaping, presoaking, pretasting, prewashing, purgatives, ragpickers, reclasping, rephrasing, resampling, respeaking, respraying, restamping, saprogenic, scampering, scarpering, separating, serigraphs, serigraphy, sharpening, spattering, springhead, supergiant, wingspread.

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

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Alternative Orthography: PRISAGE


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

50 52 49 53 41 47 45

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

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

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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)

01010000 01010010 01001001 01010011 01000001 01000111 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#82 &#73 &#83 &#65 &#71 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0052 0049 0053 0041 0047 0045

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

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

50524353354139

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INDEX

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


  

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