Crossword-Solution: HESPERUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hesperus | n. | Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper. |
| Hesperus | n. | Evening. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “HESPERUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ERYTHEIA, mother of | 1 answer |
| HESPERIDES, mother of the | 1 answer |
| HESPERIS, mother of | 1 answer |
| Longfellow's wreck | 1 answer |
| Longfellow's wrecked ship | 1 answer |
| Schooner in a Longfellow poem. | 1 answer |
| Ship done in by the reef of Norman's Woe | 1 answer |
| Ship in a Longfellow poem | 1 answer |
| The planet Venus | 1 answer |
| Evening star. | 4 answers |
| The evening star. | 4 answers |
| Mythical figure | 14 answers |
| Venus | 16 answers |
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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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HESPERUS (5)
Only Hesperus hung in the sky, solitary, pure, ineffably far-drawn and remote; yet infinitely heartening, somehow, in his valorous isolation.
LXXVII Those of Mount Seir, that neighboreth by east The Holy City, faithful folk each one, Down from the hill descended most and least, And to the Christian Duke by heaps they gone, And welcome him and his with joy and feast; On him they smile, on him they gaze alone, And were his guides, as faithful from that day As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way.
LXV “There tyrannize upon the souls you find Condemned to woe, and double still their pains; Where some complain, where some their teeth do grind, Some howl, and weep, some clank their iron chains:” This said they fled, and those that stayed behind, With his sharp lance he driveth and constrains; They sighing left the lands, his silver sheep Where Hesperus doth lead, doth feed, and keep.
There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the golden tree.
Know ye not these?” and Gareth lookt and read— In letters like to those the vexillary Hath left crag-carven o’er the streaming Gelt— “PHOSPHORUS,” then “MERIDIES”—“HESPERUS”— “NOX”—“MORS,” beneath five figures, armed men, Slab after slab, their faces forward all, And running down the Soul, a Shape that fled With broken wings, torn raiment and loose hair, For help and shelter to the hermit’s cave.
Quotes with HESPERUS (2)
Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light, Goddess excellently bright. Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose, Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close: Bless us then with wished sight, Goddess excellently bright. Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal-shining quiver, Give unto the flying hart Space to breath, how short…
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd. Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless lig…
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Appears in: Newsday, NYT, WP.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1953–2021).