Crossword-Solution: METON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| METON | anagram | ENTOM, MENOT, MENTO, MONET, MONTE, MOTEN, NOTME, OMENT, TOMEN |
We have 5 clues for the answer “METON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Athenian astronomer of Fifth Century B. C. | 1 answer |
| Conferred about | 1 answer |
| Greek astronomer, 432 B. C. | 1 answer |
| Moon plain | 2 answers |
| A GIFT THAT IS BESTOWED OR CONFERRED | 10 answers |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
AEZMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with METON (5)
THE BIRDS DRAMATIS PERSONAE EUELPIDES PISTHETAERUS EPOPS (the Hoopoe) TROCHILUS, Servant to Epops PHOENICOPTERUS HERALDS A PRIEST A POET A PROPHET METON, a Geometrician A COMMISSIONER A DEALER IN DECREES IRIS A PARRICIDE CINESIAS, a Dithyrambic Bard AN INFORMER PROMETHEUS POSIDON TRIBALLUS HERACLES SLAVES OF PISTHETAERUS MESSENGERS CHORUS OF BIRDS SCENE: A wild, desolate tract of open country; broken rocks and brushwood occupy the centre of the stage.
PISTHETAERUS Yet another pest! What have you come to do? What's your plan? What's the purpose of your journey? Why these splendid buskins? METON I want to survey the plains of the air for you and to parcel them into lots.
PISTHETAERUS In the name of the gods, who are you? METON Who am I? Meton, known throughout Greece and at Colonus.(1) f(1) A deme contiguous to Athens.
METON With the straight ruler I set to work to inscribe a square within this circle; in its centre will be the market-place, into which all the straight streets will lead, converging to this centre like a star, which, although only orbicular, sends forth its rays in a straight line from all sides.
PISTHETAERUS Meton, you new Thales...(1) f(1) Thales was no less famous as a geometrician than he was as a sage.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WP.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1943–2001).