Crossword-Solution: ESCA
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ESCA | anagram | ACES, AESC, ASCE, ASEC, CAES, CASE, CESA, CSEA, SECA |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ESCA”
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| APOPLEXY plant | 1 answer |
| Apoplexy in plants. | 1 answer |
| Bait, in Naples | 1 answer |
| grape disease | 2 answers |
| Plant modified by environment | 2 answers |
| Grapevine disease | 2 answers |
| plant disease | 21 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ESCA (5)
DAEMONES: O Gripe, Gripe, in aetate hominum plurimae Fiunt transennae, ubi decipiuntur dolis; Atque edepol in eas plerumque esca imponitur.
Acorns, _esculus ab esca_ (before the use of wheat-corn was found out) were heretofore the food of men, nay of Jupiter himself, (as well as other productions of the earth) till their luxurious palats were debauched: And even in the Romans time, the custom was in Spain to make a second service of acorns and mast, (as the French now do of marrons and chesnuts) which they likewise used to rost under the embers.
Only for a moment, for as the girl sprang past him, he wheeled about, seized her with his strong left arm, and holding her close to him in a vice-like clutch, hissed, while the ghastly paleness caused by the flowing blood overspread his face: "Little demon! I will kill you before I will lose you now! You--shall--not--esca--" A deathly faintness overcame him, and he fell heavily; still clasping the girl, now senseless like himself.
Hence +cibus+ denotes the food of brutes also; but +esca+, only a bait, prepared as it were like a dish, and set before them.
Evasit e manibus puer et ad pedes Caesaris confugit, nihil aliud petiturus quam ut aliter periret nec esca piscium fieret.
Quotes with ESCA (2)
Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was his slave," he said, dropping unconsciously into the speech of his own people. "I have served Marcus, and it was not slave-service... my stomach will be glad when we start on this hunting trail.
And what will they do to you when you have told them this story?' Esca said very simply, 'They will kill me.' 'I am sorry, but I do not think much of that plan.' Marcus said.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1948–1983).