Crossword-Solution: MOLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moly | n. | A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe. |
| Moly | n. | A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| MOLY | anagram | MYLO |
We have 23 clues for the answer “MOLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Herb of Homer's time. | 1 answer |
| plant garlic wild | 1 answer |
| garlic wild plant | 1 answer |
| ULYSSES plant | 1 answer |
| Odysseus' magic herb. | 1 answer |
| Mythical herb of magic powers. | 1 answer |
| Magical herb of myth | 1 answer |
| Magical herb in Homer. | 1 answer |
| Magic herb of myth | 1 answer |
| Herb that protected Odysseus from Circe's magic | 1 answer |
| Mythical herb used by Odysseus as protection against Circe | 1 answer |
| Fabulous herb of the "Odyssey." | 1 answer |
| Fabulous herb of occult power. | 1 answer |
| Fabulous herb of occult power, Odysseus' charm against Circe. | 1 answer |
| "Holy ___!" (rhyming exclamation) | 1 answer |
| Fabulous herb. | 2 answers |
| EUROPEAN wild garlic | 2 answers |
| Holy follower | 3 answers |
| Garlic | 15 answers |
| WILD-growing plant | 42 answers |
| wild plant | 45 answers |
| Herb | 48 answers |
| Holy | 96 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOLY (5)
The Poetess of Reform One pleasant day in the latter part of eternity, as the Shades of all the great writers were reposing upon beds of asphodel and moly in the Elysian fields, each happy in hearing from the lips of the others nothing but copious quotation from his own works (for so Jove had kindly bedeviled their ears), there came in among them with triumphant mien a Shade whom none knew.
The leaf was darkish, and had prickles on it, But in another country, as he said, Bore a bright golden flower, but not in this soil: Unknown, and like esteemed, 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.
She sat amongst wild singing weeds, by beds of myrrh and moly; And Acis made a flute of reeds, and drew its accents slowly; And taught its spirit subtle sounds that leapt beyond suppression, And paused and panted on the bounds of fierce and fitful passion.
The root was black, while the flower was as white as milk; the gods call it Moly, and mortal men cannot uproot it, but the gods can do whatever they like.
The true medicine against the inchantmentes of _Circes_, the vanitie of licencious pleasure, the inticementes of all sinne, is, in _Homere_, the herbe _Moly_, with the blacke roote, and white flooer, sower at the first, but sweete in the end: which, _Hesiodus_ termeth the study of vertue, hard and // Hesiodus irksome in the beginnyng, but in the end, easie // de virtute.
Quotes with MOLY (1)
Why do we say razzle-dazzle instead of dazzle-razzle? Why super-duper, helter-skelter, harum-scarum, hocus-pocus, willy-nilly, hully-gully, roly-poly, holy moly, herky-jerky, walkie-talkie, namby-pamby, mumbo-jumbo, loosey-goosey, wing-ding, wham-bam, hobnob, razza-matazz, and rub-a-dub-dub? I thought you'd never ask. Consonants differ in "obstruency" — the degree to which they impede the flow of air, ranging from merely making it resonate, to forcing it noisily past an obstr…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 13 times in crossword archives (1949–2021).