Crossword-Solution: AUCEPS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| AUCEPS | anagram | ACESUP |
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| old word meaning person who catches hawks | 1 answer |
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Front part of the eye
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
ECANRO
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with AUCEPS (5)
The first day A Conference betwixt an Angler, a Falconer, and a Hunter, each commending his Recreation Chapter I Piscator, Venator, Auceps Piscator.
Hic, dum sublimis versus ructatur, et errat, Si veluti menilis intentus decidit auceps In puteum, soveamve; licet, Succurrite, longum Clamet, in cives: non sit qui tollere curet.
But in the second edition (1655) the book was already very near to its final shape, for Walton had enlarged it by about a third, and the dialogue was now sustained by three persons, Piscator, Venator and Auceps, instead of two--the original "Viator" also having changed his name to "Venator." Those interested in tracing the changes will find them all laboriously noted in Sir Harris Nicolas's great edition.
The characters of _Piscater_, _Venater_, and _Auceps_, and the style of their conversations by the wayside, I found by no means unlike those of the Pilgrim's Progress.
Birds, especially field fares, eat the berries with avidity; and a botanical designation of the tree is _aucuparia_, as signifying fruit used by the _auceps_, or bird catcher, with which to bait his snares.