Crossword-Solution: HAEMONY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Haemony | n. | A plant described by Milton as "of sovereign use against all enchantments." |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| HAEMONY | anagram | MAHONEY, YEAHMON |
We have 1 clue for the answer “HAEMONY”
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| plant mentioned in Milton's poetry | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
MAECEZ
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eruption
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Sentences with HAEMONY (5)
Unknown, and like esteem'd, and the dull swain Treads on it daily with his clouted shoon; And yet more med'cinal is it than that moly That Hermes once to wise Ulysses gave; He call'd it haemony, and gave it me, And bade me keep it as of sovran use 'Gainst all enchantments, mildew, blast, or damp, Or ghastly furies' apparition.
Bodily motion would indeed disturb it for me--lay fetters on my spirit.--Sometimes, again, I dream of a new flower--one never before beheld by mortal eye--with some strange, wonderful quality in it, perhaps, that makes it a treasure, like that flower of Milton's invention--haemony--in Comus, you know.
Bodily motion would indeed disturb it for me--lay fetters on my spirit.--Sometimes, again, I dream of a new flower--one never before beheld by mortal eye--with some strange, wonderful quality in it, perhaps, that makes it a treasure, like that flower of Milton’s invention--haemony--in Comus, you know.
What hope for the rising wave that knows in its rise only its doom to sink, and at length be dashed on the low shore of annihilation? But the time would fail me to follow the doubling of the soul coursed by the hounds of Death, or to set down the forms innumerable in which the golden Haemony springs in its path, Of sovran use ‘Gainst all enchantments, mildew blast, or damp.
And as Thessaly was regarded as a land of magic, 'Haemonian' acquired the sense of 'magical' (see Ovid, _Met._ vii 264, "_Haemonia_ radices valle resectas," etc.), and Milton's Haemony is simply "the magical plant." Coleridge supposes that by the prickles and gold flower of the plant Milton signified the sorrows and triumph of the Christian life.