Crossword-Solution: ERST 4 letters, 291 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

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Word Word Type Definition
Erst adv. First.
Erst adv. Previously; before; formerly; heretofore.

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Word Anagrams
ERST anagram ERTS, ESRT, REST, RETS, RTES, SERT, STER, TERS, TRES

We have 291 clues for the answer “ERST”

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"... which __ was irksome to me": Shakespeare 1 answer
"... which ___ from heat did canopy the herd": Shak. 1 answer
"...which __ was irksome to me": "As You Like It" 1 answer
"Once," but like poetically 1 answer
"Step the meek fowls where ___ they ranged": Emerson 1 answer
"Step the meek owls where ___ they ranged" (Emerson) 1 answer
"The even mead, that __ brought sweetly forth / The freckled cowslip": "Henry V" 1 answer
"The even mead, that ___ brought sweetly forth ...": "Henry V" 1 answer
"Where ___ was thickest fight": Milton 1 answer
"While" attachment 1 answer
"While" attachment of old 1 answer
"While" attachment, once 1 answer
"While" beginning 1 answer
"While" beginning, once 1 answer
"While" lead-in 1 answer
"While" leader of old 1 answer
"While" opener, a while back 1 answer
"While" opening of old 1 answer
"While" prefix 1 answer
"While" prefix, once 1 answer
"While" stick-on 1 answer
Once, poetically 1 answer
Ago, long ago 1 answer
Archaic "formerly" 1 answer
Archaic "once" 1 answer
Archaic attachment to "while" 1 answer
Archaic prefix for "while" 1 answer
At an earlier time, earlier 1 answer
At an earlier time, in an earlier time 1 answer
At first, at first 1 answer
At first, in Frankfurt 1 answer
At first, once 1 answer
At one time in the past? 1 answer
At one time, once 1 answer
Attachment to "while" 1 answer
Back in the day, back in the day 1 answer
Back then, back then 1 answer
Back then, back when 1 answer
Back when, long ago 1 answer
Before a while? 1 answer
Before now, before now 1 answer
Before now, in olden days 1 answer
Before the present time, in the past 1 answer
Before, before today 1 answer
Before, formally 1 answer
Before, once before 1 answer
Beginner for a while? 1 answer
Beginning for "while" 1 answer
Beginning for "while," at one time 1 answer
Beginning for while, once 1 answer
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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
ENAOCR
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with ERST (5)

Thus saying rose The Monarch, and prevented all reply, Prudent, least from his resolution rais’d Others among the chief might offer now (Certain to be refus’d) what erst they feard; And so refus’d might in opinion stand His rivals, winning cheap the high repute Which he through hazard huge must earn.
Paradise Lost John Milton 1991
Stern-visaged queens, since coming to this land First in your sanctuary I bent the knee, Frown not on me or Phoebus, who, when erst He told me all my miseries to come, Spake of this respite after many years, Some haven in a far-off land, a rest Vouchsafed at last by dread divinities.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
Not in the wine-shop did Madame Defarge confer with these ministers, but in the shed of the wood-sawyer, erst a mender of roads.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1994
Howbeit, he has led me to you once, and belike will do so once more." "Yea," quoth the big man smiling no whit more than erst, "and that will make the fourth time.
The Well at the World's End William Morris 2008
Next he sings Of Gallus wandering by Permessus' stream, And by a sister of the Muses led To the Aonian mountains, and how all The choir of Phoebus rose to greet him; how The shepherd Linus, singer of songs divine, Brow-bound with flowers and bitter parsley, spake: "These reeds the Muses give thee, take them thou, Erst to the aged bard of Ascra given, Wherewith in singing he was wont to draw Time-rooted ash-trees from the mountain heights.
The Bucolics and Eclogues Virgil 2008

Quotes with ERST (1)

When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime, And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard, Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake …
William Shakespeare Shakespeare's Sonnets
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 575 times in crossword archives (1943–2024).