Crossword-Solution: ONGLE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ONGLE | anagram | EGLON, ELGON, ELONG, GELON, GOLEN, LONGE, NOLEG |
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| Fingernail: Fr. | 1 answer |
| French word for "nail" | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
EZACME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ONGLE (5)
Plutarque examina les pièces sous le réverbère, essaya de les rayer l'une contre l'autre d'abord, puis avec l'ongle noir de son pouce.
Comme une algue morte Tu vas, que t'importe? Le courant t'emporte, Mais tu dors toujours! Sans soin, sans étude, Tu dors en chemin, Et l'inquiétude A la froide main, De son ongle aride, Sur ton front candide, Qui n'a point de ride, N'écrit pas: "Demain!" Il dort, innocence! Les anges sereins Qui savent d'avance Le sort des humains, Le voyant sans armes, Sans peur, sans alarmes, Baisent avec larmes Ses petites mains.
Les premiers instruments de musique que les hommes aient connus ont ÈtÈ la harpe et la lyre, dont on tire les sons avec les doigts et les ongles; ne se peut-il pas que du mot _ongle_ on ait dit _ongler, jongler, jongleur_, pour exprimer l'action de jouer de la harpe et de la lyre? L'usage ayant Ètabli la signification de _jongleur_, on a continuÈ ‡ nommer ainsi tous les joueurs d'instruments, quels que fussent les instruments dont ils jouoient.
Gordon observes, that, the phrase "payment on the nail" did not originate from circumstances like these, but was an adaptation of the Latin _super unguem_ or the French _sur l'ongle_, by which is meant "paying down into a man's hand." It might thus stand for a bargain the opposite of that of which God's Penny was the usual symbol.
The Angles of Germany: their comparative obscurity.--Notice of Tacitus.--Extract from Ptolemy.--Conditions of the Angle Area.-- The Varini.--The Reudigni and other Populations of Tacitus.--The Sabalingii, &c., of Ptolemy.--The Suevi Angili.--Engle and Ongle.--Original Angle Area.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1954–1960).