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Anagram : (noun)
1: a word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of
another word or phrase
(verb)
1: read letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning [syn:
anagrammatize, anagrammatise]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Anagram : \An"a*gram\, v. t.
To anagrammatize.
Some of these anagramed his name, Benlowes, into
Benevolus. --Warburton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Anagram : \An"a*gram\, n. [F. anagramme, LL. anagramma, fr. Gr. ?
back, again _ ? to write. See Graphic.]
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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