These are the meanings of the letters XIBSECRE when you unscramble them.
- Cerise (a.)
Cherry-colored; a light bright red; -- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.
- Excise (n.)
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also levied to pursue certain trades and deal in certain commodities. Certain direct taxes (as, in England, those on carriages, servants, plate, armorial bearings, etc.), are included in the excise. Often used adjectively; as, excise duties; excise law; excise system.
- Excise (n.)
That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes.
- Excise (v. t.)
To cut out or off; to separate and remove; as, to excise a tumor.
- Excise (v. t.)
To impose upon; to overcharge.
- Excise (v. t.)
To lay or impose an excise upon.
- Ibexes (pl. )
of Ibex
- rebecs (unknown)
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- Scribe (n.)
A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
- Scribe (n.)
One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
- Scribe (v. i.)
To make a mark.
- Scribe (v. t.)
To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding, or the like; -- so called because the workman marks, or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
- Scribe (v. t.)
To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
- Scribe (v. t.)
To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
- sexier (unknown)
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- xebecs (unknown)
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