Bible Dictionaries
Anagram
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) 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.
(2):
(v. t.) To anagrammatize.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Anagram'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/anagram.html. 1828.