Crossword-Solution: HYDRIA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hydria | n. | A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck, and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of this form. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HYDRIA | anagram | RIDYAH, RIYADH |
We have 10 clues for the answer “HYDRIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient water jar | 1 answer |
| JAR for carrying water | 1 answer |
| PITCHER for carrying water | 1 answer |
| TWO-handled pitcher | 1 answer |
| jug water | 3 answers |
| ANCIENT jar | 6 answers |
| JAR, ancient | 6 answers |
| water jug | 8 answers |
| Vase | 16 answers |
| WATER vessel | 22 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with HYDRIA (5)
When, owing to a disagreement about some questions of administrative policy, I threw up my post at Junagarh, and entered the service of the Nizam of Hydria, they appointed me at once, as a strong young man, collector of cotton duties at Barich.
Her hair is bound with reeds; above her veil grows a tall water plant, and below the swan other water plants, and a stork seated on a _hydria_, or pitcher, from which water is flowing.
The swan, the stork, the water plants, and the _hydria_ must all be regarded as symbols of fresh water, the latter emblem being introduced to show that the element is fit for the use of man.
Thus we have the _pithos_ and _amphora_ for storing wine, the _krater_ for mixing it, the _psykter_ for cooling it, the _kyathos_ for ladling it out, and the _oinochoe_ or _prochoos_ for pouring it out; the _hydria_ was used for fetching water from the well.
The shapes most commonly employed by the Athenian potters of this period are the _amphora, hydria, kylix, oinochoe_ and _lekythos,_ the first-named being the most popular.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1984).