Crossword-Solution: MOXA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Moxa | n. | A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou. |
| Moxa | n. | A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “MOXA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CAUTERY plant | 1 answer |
| Cauterizing material | 1 answer |
| Chinese wormwood. | 1 answer |
| MOKUSA | 1 answer |
| downy material obtained from various plants | 1 answer |
| MOE kusa | 2 answers |
| cautery | 11 answers |
| Chinese fabric | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MOXA (5)
Leontine, however, determined to save Lucien at any cost, would not let go of the terrible stamped documents, which she clutched with the tenacity of a vise, though the flame had already burnt her delicate skin like a moxa.
The penalties for bad conduct used to be a few blows with a switch on the front of the leg, or a slight burn with the _moxa_ on the forefinger—still a common punishment in households; but I understood the teacher to say that detention in the school-house is the only punishment now resorted to, and he expressed great disapprobation of our plan of imposing an added task.
Nosoki told me that he relies mainly on the application of the _moxa_ and on acupuncture in the treatment of acute diseases, and in chronic maladies on friction, medicinal baths, certain animal and vegetable medicines, and certain kinds of food.
About five Ito woke me by saying he was quite sure that the _moxa_ would be the thing to cure my spine, and, as we were going to stay all day, he would go and fetch an operator; but I rejected this as emphatically as the services of the blind man! Yesterday a man came and pasted slips of paper over all the “peep holes” in the _shôji_, and I have been very little annoyed, even though the _yadoya_ is so crowded.
Whipping is not a common punishment, except among the roughest classes; the moxa is preferred as a deterrent; and it is a severe one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1969–1970).