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HEMPEN WIDOW

Specialty Definition: HEMPEN WIDOW

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Literature

Hempen Widow The widow of a man who has been hanged. (See above.)
"Of a hempen widow the kid forlorn."
Ainsworth: Jack Sheppard. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Slang in 1811

HEMPEN WIDOW. One whose husband was hanged. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Anagrams: HEMPEN WIDOW

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-e-h-i-m-n-o-p-w-w"

-4 letters: imponed, phoneme, phonied, pinweed, whomped.

-5 letters: depone, domine, emodin, hemoid, hempen, hempie, hoiden, honied, howdie, impede, impend, imphee, impone, meowed, monied, nephew, omened, opened, opined, peined, phenom, phoned, ponied, whined, window.

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

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Alternative Orthography: HEMPEN WIDOW


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

48 45 4D 50 45 4E      57 49 44 4F 57

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

    

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

01001000 01000101 01001101 01010000 01000101 01001110 00100000 01010111 01001001 01000100 01001111 01010111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#69 &#77 &#80 &#69 &#78 &#32 &#87 &#73 &#68 &#79 &#87

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 0045 004D 0050 0045 004E      0057 0049 0044 004F 0057

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

42394750394825743384957

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