Crossword-Solution: SELENITES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SELENITES | anagram | ENLISTEES |
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| Gypsum crystals | 1 answer |
| Insectoid moon dwellers in H.G. Wells's "The First Men in the Moon" | 1 answer |
| CRYSTALS SONG | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The apparent arc described, above or below the horizon, by the
sun or other celestial body. The diurnal arc is described during the
daytime, the nocturnal arc during the night.
Hint 2 anagram
CRA
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AID WHEN GOING TO COURT
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Sentences with SELENITES (5)
The Selenites* disputed variously about our earth, and expressed their doubts if it could be inhabited: the air, they said, must certainly be too dense to allow any rational dweller in the moon the necessary free respiration.
What strange things men--no, what strange things Selenites sometimes take into their heads! * Dwellers in the moon.
According to Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called Selenites, “wherein is a white, which increases and decreases with the moon.” My journal for the last year or two, has been _selenitic_ in this sense.
This treaty was sworn to on the part of the Heliots, by Pyronides, {93} and Therites, and Phlogius; and on the part of the Selenites, by Nyctor, and Menarus, and Polylampus." Such was the peace made between them; the wall was immediately pulled down, and we were set at liberty.
According to Pliny, there is a stone in Arabia called Selenites, "wherein is a white, which increases and decreases with the moon." My journal for the last year or two has been _selenitic_ in this sense.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1999–2024).