Crossword-Solution: MAGNES
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Magnes | n. | Magnet. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MAGNES | anagram | GASMEN, MAGENS |
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Hint 1 meaning
Pertaining to, or situated near, the back, or dorsum, of an
animal or of one of its parts; notal; tergal; neural; as, the dorsal
fin of a fish; the dorsal artery of the tongue; -- opposed to ventral.
Hint 2 anagram
DASROL
Hint 3 another clue
BACK ___!
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Sentences with MAGNES (5)
From the daughters of Deucalion sprang Magnes and Macedon, ancestors of the Magnesians and Macedonians, who are thus represented as cousins to the true Hellenic stock.
And when Apollo saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes.
The name Electricity is derived from ELEKTRON, the Greek for amber, and Magnetism from Magnes, the name of the shepherd, or, more likely, from the city of Magnesia, in Lydia, where the stone occurred.
The claim to Comedy is put forward by the Megarians,--not only by those of Greece proper, who allege that it originated under their democracy, but also by the Megarians of Sicily, for the poet Epicharmus, who is much earlier than Chionides and Magnes, belonged to that country.
Magnes, a writer of great wit, and long popular, closely followed, and the titles of some of the plays of these writers confirm the belief that Attic comedy, from its commencement, took other ground than that occupied by the mythological burlesques of Epicharmus.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1976).