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LUBINS

Specialty Definition: LUBINS

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Literature

Lubins A species of goblins in Normandy that take the form of wolves, and frequent churchyards. They are very timorous, and take flight at the slightest noise.
"Il a peur de lubins " (Afraid of ghosts). Said of a chicken-hearted person. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LUBINS

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lubins

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: LUBINS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-i-l-n-s-u"

-2 letters: bins, blin, buns, libs, lins, nibs, nils, nubs, slub, snib, snub.

-3 letters: bin, bis, bun, bus, ins, lib, lin, lis, nib, nil, nub, nus, sib, sin, sub, sun, uns.

-4 letters: bi, in, is, li, nu, si, un, us.

 Words containing the letters "b-i-l-n-s-u"
 

+1 letter: bluings, subline.

 

+2 letters: albumins, basinful, blousing, bluefins, blueings, blushing, botulins, bullions, bustline, bustling, nebulise, nubilose, nubilous, slubbing, sublines, subtilin, tubulins, unbuilds.

 

+3 letters: ablutions, abutilons, basinfuls, bluelines, botulinus, bouillons, buildings, bulkiness, bulletins, bullrings, bumblings, bundlings, bunglings, buntlines, burliness, busheling, bustlines, fungibles, globulins, infusible, insoluble, insolubly, insurable, nailbrush, nebulised, nebulises, nebulizes, nobeliums, nubbliest, olibanums, plumbings, publicans, rumblings, scumbling, slubbings, stumbling, subalpine, sublating, sublation, subliming, subtilins, tribunals, tumblings, turbinals, unbeliefs, unbridles, unlimbers.

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

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Alternative Orthography: LUBINS


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

4C 55 42 49 4E 53

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)

01001100 01010101 01000010 01001001 01001110 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#76 &#85 &#66 &#73 &#78 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004C 0055 0042 0049 004E 0053

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

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

465536434853

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INDEX

1. Expressions: Internet
2. Anagrams
3. Orthography
4. Bibliography


  

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