POISONERS

"POISONERS" is a plural of: poisoner.

Date "POISONERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references)

Domain	Definition
Literature	Poisoners (Secret). (1) Locusta, a woman of ancient Rome, who was employed by the Empress Agrippina to poison her husband Claudius. Nero employed the same woman to poison Britannicus and others. (2) The Borgias (Pope Alexander VI. and his children, Caesar and Lucrezia) were noted poisoners. (3) Hieronyma Spara and Toffania, of Italy. (See Aqua Tofana.) (4) Marquise de Brinvilliers, a young profligate French woman, taught the art by an officer named Sainte Croix, who learnt it in Italy. (See World of Wonders, part vii. p. 203.) (5) Lavoisin and Lavigoreux, French midwives and fortune-tellers. (6) Anna Maria Zweinziger, sentenced to death in 1811. In English history we have a few instances: e.g. Sir Thomas Overbury was so murdered by the Countess of Somerset. King James, it has been said, was a victim to similar poisoning, by Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Crosswords: POISONERS

Specialty definitions using "POISONERS": Succession Powder. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Poisoners (1912)
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Domain	Title
Books	Guileless Gypsy and the Camberwell Poisoners (reference) (more book examples)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	They were highwaymen, forgers, poisoners, incendiaries, murderers, parricides.
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"POISONERS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 91.67% of the time. "POISONERS" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	91.67%	11	106,044
Noun (proper)	8.33%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	12	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "POISONERS": self-poisoners.
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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.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"
	-1 letter: erosions, poisoner, poorness, ropiness, snoopers, snoopier, spoonier, spoonies.
	-2 letters: erosion, noosers, operons, orisons, orpines, persons, poisers, poisons, prisons, prossie, seniors, snipers, snooper, sonsier, sooners, spinors, spinose, sponsor.
	-3 letters: enosis, eosins, essoin, irones, noesis, noises, nooser, nooses, nosier, operon, opines, opsins, orison, orpine, orpins, osiers, ossein, person, pisser, poiser, poises, poison, ponies, pooris, pornos.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-n-o-o-p-r-s-s"
	+1 letter: oppression, procession, profession, spoonerism.
	+2 letters: aponeurosis, compression, coprisoners, desorptions, ionospheres, oppressions, portionless, processions, professions, progression, repositions, resorptions, responsions, spoonerisms, sporogonies.
	+3 letters: anisotropies, compressions, coprocessing, gossipmonger, monodisperse, necropolises, personations, preconscious, prepositions, processional, processioned, professional, progressions, prosecutions, provisioners, repossession, reprovisions, responsories, rhinoscopies, sonographies, spinsterhood, sporogenesis.
	+4 letters: angiospermous, compressional, coprocessings, corresponsive, counselorship, counterpoises, cyclosporines, decompression, endomorphisms, gossipmongers, governorships, impersonators, iontophoreses, iontophoresis, mispronounces, morphogenesis, nephrologists, nonresponsive, operationisms, operationists, passionflower, periodontists, phrenologists, postmodernism, postmodernist, postrecession, prednisolones, prepossession, proboscideans, processionals, processioning, professionals, progressional, promotiveness, protestations, redisposition, reimpositions, repossessions, retinoscopies, siphonophores, spinsterhoods, stereophonies, stereopticons, superposition.
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