Crossword-Solution: CANICULAR
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Canicular | a. | Pertaining to, or measured, by the rising of the Dog Star. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “CANICULAR”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Relating to the dog days of summer | 1 answer |
| relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula | 1 answer |
| Years | 59 answers |
| Year | 63 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CANICULAR (5)
The point, however, was that they had changed places; Maggie had from her window, seen her stepmother leave the house--at so unlikely an hour, three o'clock of a canicular August, for a ramble in garden or grove--and had thereupon felt her impulse determined with the same sharpness that had made the spring of her companion's three weeks before.
And now in the torrid heat of summer, the canicular days being at hand, the furnaces in the glass-house of the said Angelo have been extinguished.
But this Zorzi, called the Ballarin, although he has removed from the furnace of the said Angelo the glass which was to be kept hot, does insolently and defiantly refuse to put out the fire in the said furnace, and forces the boys to make the fire all night, to the great injury of their health, because the canicular days are approaching.
This year was also called the Heliac, that is the Solar year, and the Canicular year; and it consisted of three hundred and sixty-five days, without intercalation; so that at the end of four years, or of four times three hundred and sixty-five days, making 1460 days, it needed to add a day, to make four complete revolutions of the Sun.
Defn: A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early part of September; canicular days; -- so called in reference to the rising in ancient times of the Dog Star (Sirius) with the sun.