Crossword-Solution: IYNX 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

The dictionaries define the substance as a stone from which antimony is prepared, but the Arabs understand a semi-mythical mineral of yellow colour which enters into the veins of the eyes and gives them Iynx-like vision.

Just now, coon cats, tortoise-shell cats, and bizarre colors of Persian cats are mostly in vogue, but the tailless Manx cat, and even freaks like the six-toed cat and Iynx cats always find a ready market.

SUB-FAMILY IYNGINÆ THE WRYNECK IYNX TORQUILLA Upper plumage reddish grey, irregularly spotted and lined with brown and black; a broad black and brown band from the back of the head to the back; throat and breast yellowish red, with dusky transverse rays; rest of the under plumage whitish, with arrow shaped black spots; outer web of the quills marked with rectangular alternate black and yellowish red spots; tail-feathers barred with black zigzag bands; beak and feet olive brown.

Speaking of it as well known among the Spanish women and children, he derives the name from _iynx_, the bird called the wryneck, concerning which the ancients had certain superstitions.

THE WRYNECK Iynx torquilla, Linnæus Under the name of the “Cuckoo’s Mate” this species is well known in our southern and south-eastern counties.