Crossword-Solution: ANILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anile | a. | Old-womanish; imbecile. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANILE | anagram | AILNE, ALIEN, ALINE, ELAIN, ELIAN, ELINA, ENLAI, ILANE, ILEAN, INALE, LAINE, LANEI, LIANE, LINEA, NELIA |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
AEROCN
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ANILE (5)
Have they not to and of you, dear friend? A friend of mine was dining at a large dinner of clergymen, and a story, as true as the sausage story above given, was told regarding me, by one of those reverend divines, in whose frock sits some anile chatter-boxes, as any man who knows this world knows.
Bless your heart, passion is a manly thing, a womanly thing, a grand thing, not a feeble, quavering, palsied, anile, senile thing.
The feeblest commissioner was James-a-Croft, who had already exhibited himself with very anile characteristics, and whose subsequent manifestations were to seem like dotage.
The other is, that the idiocy of the boy is so evenly balanced by the folly of the mother, as to present to the general reader rather a laughable burlesque on the blindness of anile dotage, than an analytic display of maternal affection in its ordinary workings.
Amongst much that is sagacious, we feel and we resent with disgust a taint of falsehood diffused over these recent speculations from vulgar and even counterfeit incredulity; the one gross vice of German philosophy, not less determinate or less misleading than that vice which, heretofore, through many centuries, had impoverished this subject, and had stopped its discussion under the anile superstition of the ecclesiastical fathers.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Herald Tribune, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 174 times in crossword archives (1942–2018).