Crossword-Solution: SKEAT
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SKEAT | anagram | KATES, KEATS, KETAS, SKATE, STAKE, STEAK, TAKES, TEAKS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SKEAT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| English lexicographer | 1 answer |
| English philologist. | 2 answers |
| English coin | 30 answers |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
GATAE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SKEAT (5)
Professor Skeat, in his presidential address to the members of the Philological Society in 1886, gave a most interesting account of some hundred ghost words, or words which have no real existence.
Skeat quotes a curious instance of the misreading of the thorn (
The word _febris_ was printed with the diphthong , so Stephens excused himself by saying in the errata that ``le chalcographe a fait une fivre longue (fbrem) quoique une fivre courte (febrem) soit moins dangereux.'' Allusion has already been made in the first chapter to Professor Skeat's ghost words.
WHO KILLED THE OTTER'S BABIES[1]? [1] Adapted from the story as told in Fables and Folk Tales From an Eastern Forest, by Walter Skeat.
See also Skeat's collected edition of Chaucer's Works, brought out under the auspices of the Early English Text Society.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1955–1973).