Crossword-Solution: ONK 3 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

The Nga-wa-onk, or throwing stick is from twenty to twenty-six inches in length, and is of a very similar character throughout the continent, varying a little in width or shape according to the fashion of particular districts.

For instance, in the tablet figured on the page opposite, where we see hieroglyphics within a cartouche, the _onk_ or symbol of life, the solar disk, the double ostrich-plume, the long hair-dress called _namms_, and the _tam_ or _kukupha_ sceptre, all unmistakable Egyptian features--we observe a style of drapery which is quite unknown in Egypt, while in several respects it is Assyrian, or at least Mesopotamian.

The brahminy ducks, which during the winter months were scattered in twos and threes over the lakes and rivers of Northern India, collect into flocks that migrate, one by one, to cooler climes, so that, by the end of the first week in May, the _a-onk_ of these birds is no longer heard.

From the crowded _jhil_ emanate the sweet twittering of the wagtails, the clanging call of the geese, the sibilant note of the whistling teal, the curious _a-onk_ of the brahminy ducks, the mewing of the jacanas and the quacking of many kinds of ducks.

Probably we should read [Greek: taxontas] for [Greek: taxantas].] [Footnote 140: [Greek: eplêroun dia tôn boêthein autois tetagmenôn] (? Adjutores).] [Footnote 141: [Greek: epi tou nôtou tês entuchias grammasin aidous autothen apasês kai exousias onkô sesobêmenois].] If the suggestion that the Primiscrinii were considered as in some sense substitutes (Adjutores) for the Cornicularius be correct, we may perhaps account for there being two of them in the days of Lydus by the disappearance of the Princeps.