Crossword-Solution: PARASANG
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| Parasang | n. | A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus and Xenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a half miles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as now used, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “PARASANG”
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| Almost 4 miles, in Persia. | 1 answer |
| Persian unit of distance equal to about 5.5 km or 3.4 miles | 1 answer |
| PERSIAN distance measure | 2 answers |
| measure Persian | 6 answers |
| Persian measure | 8 answers |
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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.
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Sentences with PARASANG (5)
These measures cannot exceed an ordinary parasang, or three Roman miles.] 87 (return) [ The march of Julian from Ctesiphon is circumstantially, but not clearly, described by Ammianus, (xxiv.
The hippodrome occupied an area of three parasangs square, with an inner square measuring one parasang on each side, around which the races were run.
The messenger hurried forwards and had not been gone more than an hour, before they saw the King's Chamberlains and Emirs advancing towards them, to meet them at a parasang's distance from the city and escort them into the royal presence.
And on this wise she held the throne a whole year, during which time she heard no news of her lord, and failed to hit upon his traces, which was exceeding grievous to her; so, when her distress became excessive, she summoned her Wazirs and Chamberlains and bid them fetch architects and builders and make her in front of the palace a horse-course, one parasang long and the like broad.
Lay all these in a budget[FN#315] and to-morrow, after the morning-prayers, take boat with them, saying to the boatman, 'I would have thee row me down the river below Bassorah.' An he say to thee, 'I cannot go farther than a parasang' do thou answer, 'As thou wilt;' but, when he shall have come so far, lure him on with money to carry thee farther; and the first flower-garden thou wilt descry after this will be that of the lady Jamilah.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1951).