Crossword-Solution: SILENUS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Silenus | n. | See Wanderoo. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SILENUS | anagram | SELINUS |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SILENUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Foster father of Bacchus. | 1 answer |
| God of wine and fertility. | 1 answer |
| WOODLAND spirit | 8 answers |
| WOODLAND god | 8 answers |
| Satyr | 9 answers |
| woodland deity | 14 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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eruption
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Sentences with SILENUS (5)
Bob Coggan was sent home for his ill manners, and tranquility was restored by Jacob Smallbury, who volunteered a ballad as inclusive and interminable as that with which the worthy toper old Silenus amused on a similar occasion the swains Chromis and Mnasylus, and other jolly dogs of his day.
Speed ye, Pierian Maids! Within a cave Young Chromis and Mnasyllos chanced to see Silenus sleeping, flushed, as was his wont, With wine of yesterday.
Even the old men who had come to “look on” caught the spirit of revelry and stamped the floor with the vigor of old Silenus.
XXX If antique times admired Silenus old That oft appeared set on his lazy ass, How would they wonder if they had behold Such sights as from the myrtle high did pass? Thence came a lady fair with locks of gold, That like in shape, in face and beauty was To sweet Armide; Rinaldo thinks he spies Her gestures, smiles, and glances of her eyes.
Dear offspring of pleas'd VENUS, And jollie plumpe SILENUS; Haste, haste, to decke the haire, Of th' only sweetly faire.
Quotes with SILENUS (2)
What I'm going to do up here, kid, is tell you a story. Like all stories, it's an attempt to make sense of something larger than itself. And, like most stories, it fails, to a certain degree. It's a gloss, a rendition, so it's not exact. But it'll do. -Silenus
Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not merely a dance of fun and beauty (though it was that too) but a magic dance of plenty, and where their hands touched, and where their feet fell, the feast came into existence- sides of roasted meat that filled the grove with delicious smells, and wheaten cakes and oaten cakes, honey and many-colored sugars and cream as thick as porridge and as smooth as still water, peaches, ne…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1962–1963).