Crossword-Solution: OSTRACON
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| OSTRACON | anagram | CARTOONS |
We have 2 clues for the answer “OSTRACON”
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| Athenian ballot, used in banishing Aristides. | 1 answer |
| Inscribed potsherd of early Palestine. | 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
ECZMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with OSTRACON (4)
Ever since man first scratched hieroglyphics upon an ostracon, or scribbled with sepia upon papyrus, he must have wondered, as we wonder to-day.
Every one taking an ostracon, that is, a sherd, a piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen's he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails.
His rule may have come to an end owing to some court intrigue, or he may have had no male heir to follow him.* Ramses, who succeeded him, did not belong to the royal line, or was only remotely connected with it.** * It would appear, from an Ostracon in the British Museum, that the year XXI.
Before the door a vessel of water (_ostracon_ or _ardalion_) was set, to be used, like the holy water of Catholic times, by persons _leaving_ the house, for purification.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1966–1967).