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QUERNO

Date "QUERNO" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references)


Specialty Definition: QUERNO

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Literature

Querno Camillo Querno, of Apulia, hearing that Leo X. was a great patron of poets, went to Rome with a harp in his hand, and sang his Alexias, a poem containing 20,000 verses. He was introduced to the Pope as a buffoon, but was promoted to the laurel.
Rome in her Capitol saw Querno sit.
Thronëd on seven hills, the Antichrist of wit."
Dunciad, ii. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Crosswords: QUERNO

Specialty definitions using "QUERNO": Improvisators. (references)

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Anagrams: QUERNO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-n-o-q-r-u"

-1 letter: quern, roque, rouen.

-2 letters: euro, roue, rune.

-3 letters: eon, ern, nor, one, ore, our, roe, rue, run, urn.

-4 letters: en, er, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, un.

 Words containing the letters "e-n-o-q-r-u"
 

+1 letter: conquer.

 

+2 letters: aequorin, conquers.

 

+3 letters: aequorins, conquered, conqueror, reconquer, roqueting.

 

+4 letters: conquering, conquerors, croqueting, quaternion, quercitron, questioner, reconquers, reconquest, squadroned, tourniquet.

 

+5 letters: beliquoring, chloroquine, croquignole, preconquest, quaternions, quercitrons, questionary, questioners, reconquered, reconquests, requisition, tourniquets, unconquered, ventriloquy.

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

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Alternative Orthography: QUERNO


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

51 55 45 52 4E 4F

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)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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

01010001 01010101 01000101 01010010 01001110 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#69 &#82 &#78 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0045 0052 004E 004F

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

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

515539524849

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INDEX

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


  

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