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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Cuishes or Cuisses (2 syl.). Armour for the thighs. (French, cuisse, the thigh.) "Soon o'er his thighs he placed the cuishes Bright." Jerusalem Delivered, book xi. "His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly armed." Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., iv. 1. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Date "CUISHES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references) |
"CUISHES" is a common misspelling or typo for: cities. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-i-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: cuisse. | |
-2 letters: chess, cuish, issue, shies, sices, sushi. | |
-3 letters: cess, chis, cues, cuss, ecus, hies, hiss, hues, huic, ices, ichs, secs, seis, shes, sice, sics, such, sues, uses. | |
-4 letters: chi, cis, cue, ecu, ess, hes, hic, hie, his, hue, ice, ich, sec, sei, she, sic, sis, sue, use. | |
-5 letters: eh, es, he, hi, is, sh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-i-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: chiauses, cushiest. | |
+2 letters: fuchsines, huisaches, icehouses, spicebush, squinches, subchiefs, subniches. | |
+3 letters: chubbiness, chumminess, eucharises, eunuchisms, haruspices, heuristics, hibiscuses, mistouches, sacahuiste, scirrhuses, slouchiest, smutchiest, suckfishes, touchiness, unstitches. | |
+4 letters: copublishes, crunchiness, cultishness, cushionless, echoviruses, grouchiness, hucksterism, mischievous, pasticheurs, paunchiness, puckishness, raunchiness, sacahuistes, slouchiness, spicebushes, squelchiest. | |
+5 letters: chubbinesses, chumminesses, churchliness, churlishness, cliquishness, consumership, copublishers, cuttlefishes, discotheques, enthusiastic, hallucinoses, hucksterisms, lectureships, squirarchies, superbitches, superhelices, touchinesses, unchastities. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 55 49 53 48 45 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. ..- .. ... .... . ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01010101 01001001 01010011 01001000 01000101 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C U I S H E S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0055 0049 0053 0048 0045 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37554353423953 |
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