Crossword-Solution: JESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Jess | n. | A short strap of leather or silk secured round the leg of a hawk, to which the leash or line, wrapped round the falconer's hand, was attached when used. See Illust. of Falcon. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| JESS | anagram | SSJE |
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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 JESS (5)
Had Jess a silk of any kind—not to speak of a silk like that?’ ‘Well, she had no silk, but you remember how she got that cloak with beads.’ ‘An eleven and a bit! Hoots, what was that to boast of! I tell you, every single yard of my silk cost—’ ‘Mother, that is the very way Jess spoke about her cloak!’ She lets this pass, perhaps without hearing it, for solicitude about her silk has hurried her to the wardrobe where it hangs.
Jess is beyond my frontier line; I could not touch her skirt; I have no such glamour of twilight on my pen.
Hanson hastily deposited the baby in its cradle and went to call “Jess”, her face pink with excitement.
Jess will be there, and Nigger Bill, and Tom-- On whom time's chisel works no hint of harm-- And, oh, 'twill be a day to rest and roam, When I go home! Odessa A horror of great darkness over them, No cloud of fire to guide and cover them, Beasts for the shambles, tremulous with dread, They crouch on alien soil among their dead.
After the service, he was approached in the vestibule, and in the hearing of some of his audience, by Captain Dick, with the following compliment: "In many pints ye hed jess got Roger Catron down to a hair.
Quotes with JESS (3)
You'll want all your strength for the wedding night." I cannot think why I should need strength," she said, ignoring a host of spine-tingling images rising in her mind's eye. "All I have to do is lie there." "Naked," he said grimly. "Truly?" She shot him a glance from under her lashes. "Well, if I must, I must, for you have the advantage of experience in these matters. Still, I do wish you'd told me sooner. I should not have put the modiste to so much trouble about the neglig…
I’m not saying we’ll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You’re already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn’t worth fighting for. You’ve come too far to give up on hope, Jess.
You’re only responsible for yourself, Jess. And that’s the only person you can control. Other people will either get it or they won’t but you can’t define yourself by their opinions.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Tribune, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 83 times in crossword archives (1952–2024).