Crossword-Solution: AXONES
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with AXONES (5)
All his laws he established for an hundred years, and wrote them on wooden tables or rollers, named axones, which might be turned round in oblong cases; some of their relics were in my time still to be seen in the Prytaneum, or common hall, at Athens.
But some say those are properly cyrbes, which contain laws concerning sacrifices and the rites of religion, and all the other axones.
His activity extended to all kinds of subjects: grammar (orthography, inflexions), proverbs, wonderful stories, the law-tablets ([Greek: axones]) of Solon, stones, and different kinds of wood.
This stripe results from a layer of nerve-fibres, many of which are axones from the neurones of the lateral geniculate body and the pulvinar, the grey masses directly connected with the optic nerve-fibres.
The following Irish word for “Water,” which is not extant in the Welsh, may be traced in Celtic regions in its various modifications: Uisge (_Irish_), “The Usk” (_South Britain_)—Eask(60) (_Irish_, obsolete), “The Esk” (_Scotland_), “The Escaut” (_North of France_), Isca, “The Exe” (_South Britain_)—Easkong (_Irish_, obsolete), Axona (_Gallia_, _Belg._), “The Aisne,” Axones, the neighbouring tribe.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1978).