Crossword-Solution: CHELYS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CHELYS | anagram | SCHLEY |
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| Ancient Greek lyre. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with CHELYS (5)
The Germans used the word Chelys to designate their Viols; and Christopher Simpson, in his famous treatise on the "Viol da Gamba," names it Chelys.
Grotesque, and unlike what we fancy a reality,--such as those creatures which the wild imagination of the painters of bygone days delighted in producing,--is the curious matamata (Chelys matamata), found along the banks of the Amazon, as well as in Guiana.
Doni[8] mentions the barbiton, defining it in his index as _Barbitos seu major chelys italice tiorba_, and deriving it from lyre and cithara in common with testudines, tiorbas and all tortoiseshell instruments.
The word _chelys_ was used in allusion to the oldest lyre of the Greeks which was said to have been invented by Hermes.
Numerous representations of the _chelys_ lyre or _testudo_ occur on the Greek vases, in which the actual tortoiseshell is depicted; a good illustration is given in _Le Antichità, di Ercolano_ (vol.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1961).