Crossword-Solution: TAIT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tait | n. | A small nocturnal and arboreal Australian marsupial (Tarsipes rostratus) about the size of a mouse. It has a long muzzle, a long tongue, and very few teeth, and feeds upon honey and insects. Called also noolbenger. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| TAIT | anagram | ATIT, ITAT, ITTA, TATI |
We have 12 clues for the answer “TAIT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| AUSTRALIAN honey possum | 1 answer |
| Archbishop of Canterbury, 1869–82. | 1 answer |
| British architect, Thomas Smith ____ | 1 answer |
| British vice admiral. | 1 answer |
| Down Under honey possum | 1 answer |
| Mathematical physicist Peter who pioneered in knot theory | 1 answer |
| Miss Marion ___, Dean of Vassar College. | 1 answer |
| Scottish physicist | 1 answer |
| She wrote "My Father, Bertrand Russell" | 1 answer |
| AUSTRALIAN possum | 2 answers |
| marsupial Australian | 4 answers |
| Australian marsupial | 37 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
TGAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TAIT (5)
Comes old American stock, thirsting across the Great American Desert, mule-backing across the Isthmus, wind-jamming around the Horn, to write brief and forgotten names where ten thousand generations of wild Indians are equally forgotten--names like Halleck, Hastings, Swett, Tait, Denman, Tracy, Grimwood, Carlton, Temple.
Occasionally there is a note of description: "James Mavor is a kindly genius with much knowledge"; "Tait McKenzie presided ideally" at a Shakespeare dinner; "Stephen Leacock does not keep all the good things for his publisher." Those who know the life in Montreal may well for themselves supply the details.
They have still Tait, to be sure—long may they have him!—and they have still Tait’s class-room, cupola and all; but think of what a different place it was when this youth of mine (at least on roll days) would be present on the benches, and, at the near end of the platform, Lindsay senior {17} was airing his robust old age.
Now:-- “C’était un vieux sauvage Tout noir, tour barbouilla, Ouich’ ka! Avec sa vieill’ couverte Et son sac à tabac.
Scott, says he, ‘est sans passion; il l’ignore, ou peut-être lui était-elle interdite par les mœurs hypocrites de son pays.
Quotes with TAIT (3)
Le ciel était absolument noir, il n'y avait plus d'étoiles, mais évidemment il en voyait une.
Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuve La pleine lune s'étalait, Et la solennité de la nuit, comme un fleuve Sur Paris dormant ruisselait.
victor hugo, Les Contemplations, Mors Je vis cette faucheuse. Elle était dans son champ. Elle allait à grands pas moissonnant et fauchant, Noir squelette laissant passer le crépuscule. Dans l'ombre où l'on dirait que tout tremble et recule, L'homme suivait des yeux les lueurs de la faulx. Et les triomphateurs sous les arcs triomphaux Tombaient ; elle changeait en désert Babylone, Le trône en échafaud et l'échafaud en trône, Les roses en fumier, les enfants en oiseaux, L'or en…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1945–2013).