Crossword-Solution: HOUYHNHNMS
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| Talking horses met by Gulliver | 1 answer |
| Swift creatures | 2 answers |
| Swift horses | 3 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
ZACMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with HOUYHNHNMS (5)
The satire of Traldragdubh made my blood boil as it was meant to do, but I hated Swift for the Houyhnhnms and never quite liked a horse afterwards.
And is there less probability in my account of the _Houyhnhnms_ or _Yahoos_, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in _Houyhnhnmland_, because they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked? I wrote for their amendment, and not their approbation.
The united praise of the whole race would be of less consequence to me, than the neighing of those two degenerate _Houyhnhnms_ I keep in my stable; because from these, degenerate as they are, I still improve in some virtues without any mixture of vice.
The _Houyhnhnms_, who came to visit my master out of a design of seeing and talking with me, could hardly believe me to be a right _Yahoo_, because my body had a different covering from others of my kind.
The _Houyhnhnms_ keep the _Yahoos_ for present use in huts not far from the house; but the rest are sent abroad to certain fields, where they dig up roots, eat several kinds of herbs, and search about for carrion, or sometimes catch weasels and _luhimuhs_ (a sort of wild rat), which they greedily devour.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1973–2018).