Crossword-Solution: CHANGELING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Changeling | n. | One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. |
| Changeling | n. | A simpleton; an idiot. |
| Changeling | n. | One apt to change; a waverer. |
| Changeling | a. | Taken or left in place of another; changed. |
| Changeling | a. | Given to change; inconstant. |
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| Markedly altered | 1 answer |
| DECLINE MARKEDLY | 11 answers |
| Elf | 31 answers |
| hobgoblin | 43 answers |
| Baby __ | 62 answers |
| Oaf | 68 answers |
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Sentences with CHANGELING (5)
See Elf.] [Also spelt oaf, ouphe.] A changeling or elf child, Ð that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
And this changeling called herself by the same name as the many-coloured, clinging maid of yore; she of the frequent laughter, and the many sighs, and the kind, stolen glances.
Doctor Bulwer, in his Artificial Changeling, tells a preposterous story of Battalia's being born with two pebbles in one hand and one in the other; that he refused both the breast and the pap offered him, but ate the pebbles and continued to subsist on stones for the remainder of his life.
But let the stars appear, and they Shed inhumanities away; And from the changeling fashion see, Through comic and through sweet degree, In nature’s toilet unsurpassed, Forth leaps the laughing girl at last.
The woman was a dealer in black magic, and who knew but that the child might be a changeling? It was the old grandmother, Mona Lena, who brought Leonardo up and spoilt him not a little.
Quotes with CHANGELING (3)
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowedinto a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet.
The woman rolled her eyes. “Dark River males are damn possessive and complete exhibitionists during the mating dance.” Sascha ran through her dictionary of changeling terminology and could find no fit. “Mating dance?” Mercy whistled. Dorian winced. Tamsyn suddenly got interested in her dough. Clay and Vaughn mysteriously disappeared. Behind her, Lucas’s body was a hard wall of heat. “I think we need to discuss this upstairs.
Reinvention is my philosophy, if you want to call it that,” he says, looking out the window. “Imagination is the key to creating a life that is ever new.” Stanley turns his eyes to me. “We are each of us a changeling person,” he says. “We are not going to be the same decade after decade. Wisdom results from confronting not only one’s desires and capacities but also one’s limitations.” “The Layers,” one of Stanley’s best-loved poems, is his crystallization of this wisdom. I ha…
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Appears in: Newsday.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2003).