Crossword-Solution: ORRERIES
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orreries | pl. | of Orrery |
We have 8 clues for the answer “ORRERIES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Astronomers' apparatuses | 1 answer |
| Astronomical models | 1 answer |
| Mini-planetariums | 1 answer |
| Planetariums | 1 answer |
| Planetary models | 1 answer |
| Solar system mobiles | 1 answer |
| Solar-system models | 1 answer |
| Solar system models | 2 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
EMZAEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with ORRERIES (5)
The transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769 were observed, and orreries were constructed in different parts of the country; and some respectable scientific essays are contained and valuable observations are recorded in the early volumes of the Transactions of the Philosophical Society, at Philadelphia, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at Boston and Cambridge.
Globes and orreries are the playthings of our school-days; we inhale the spirit of Protestantism with our earliest breath of consciousness; it is all but impossible to throw back our imagination into the time when, as new grand discoveries, they stirred every mind which they touched with awe and wonder at the revelation which God had sent down among mankind.
Globes and orreries are the playthings of our school-days; we inhale the spirit of Protestantism with our earliest breath of consciousness.
And let us remember that we shall never get at any fresh religious truth by means of ritual; the proper destination of all orreries, religious or otherwise, is the museum.
Still in some doubt, however: I long for a glance at an Orrery, to determine the point; and then I remember that Ferguson, an untaught man like myself, had made more Orreries than any one else, and that mechanical contrivances of the kind were the natural recourse of a man unskilled in the higher geometry.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1982–2023).