ANAGRAMS

anagrams

(noun) a game whose object is to form words from a group of randomly chosen letters

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

anagrams

plural of anagram

Verb

anagrams

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of anagram

Source: Wiktionary


ANAGRAM

An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]

Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

An"a*gram, v. t.

Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

ANAGRAM

An"a*gram, n. Etym: [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. Graphic.]

Definition: Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law.

An"a*gram, v. t.

Definition: To anagrammatize. Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into Benevolus. Warburton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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