Crossword-Solution: LYNCEAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lyncean | a. | Of or pertaining to the lynx. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “LYNCEAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sharp-sighted, as a certain animal. | 1 answer |
| Sharp-sighted | 8 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
CAEZME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LYNCEAN (5)
One of the most important of these was the Lyncean Society, founded about the year 1611, Galileo himself being a member.
Out in the open light, even the moon, The Sibyl, clothed in white, appears, with glance Lyncean, piercing deep and bringing forth From the world's ends great hosts of monstrous things, The monsters born of shadows and of dreams.
Such a man could not long pass unnoticed and unpatronised by a Court, which searches with Lyncean eyes for the basest hearts, and is actuated by Scotch principles and Scotch counsels.
But in the _Protrepticus_ he goes on to say that seeming goods, such as strength, size, beauty, honours, opinions, are mere illusion ([Greek: okiagraphia]), worthless and ridiculous, as we should know if we had Lyncean eyes to compare them with the vision of the eternal.
The females then retire at once to their holes, concealing themselves so carefully that even “the lyncean eye of an Indian hunter very rarely detects them;” but the males, exhausted by the pursuit of their mates, require ten or twelve days to recover their lost fat.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1959).