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| Domain | Definition |
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. |
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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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lubins | 2 |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 55 42 49 4E 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. ..- -... .. -. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01010101 01000010 01001001 01001110 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L U B I N S |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)465536434853 |
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