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Definition: BLOODY HAND |
BLOODY HAND1. A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. 2. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bloody Hand A man whose hand was bloody, and was therefore presumed to be the person guilty of killing the deer shot or otherwise slain. (Cf. RED HAND.) Also the badge of a baronet. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: BLOODY HAND |
| Specialty definitions using "BLOODY HAND": Redmain ♦ Urgan. (references) |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bloody hand | 11 |
bloody hand picture | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-h-l-n-o-o-y" | |
-2 letters: ladyhood. | |
-4 letters: bloody, dahoon, dhooly, doblon, nobody. | |
-5 letters: aboon, adobo, ahold, baddy, badly, baldy, bandy, bland, blond, blood, boyla, dandy, dobla, dooly, handy, hodad, honda, hoody, hooly, looby, loony, nobly, nodal, noddy, oddly, yahoo. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 4F 4F 44 59 48 41 4E 44 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01001111 01001111 01000100 01011001 00100000 01001000 01000001 01001110 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L O O D Y   H A N D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 004F 004F 0044 0059 0048 0041 004E 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364649493859242354838 |
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