Crossword-Solution: PHALANX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Phalanx | n. | A body of heavy-armed infantry formed in ranks and files close and deep. There were several different arrangements, the phalanx varying in depth from four to twenty-five or more ranks of men. |
| Phalanx | n. | Any body of troops or men formed in close array, or any combination of people distinguished for firmness and solidity of a union. |
| Phalanx | n. | A Fourierite community; a phalanstery. |
| Phalanx | n. | One of the digital bones of the hand or foot, beyond the metacarpus or metatarsus; an internode. |
| Phalanx | n. | A group or bundle of stamens, as in polyadelphous flowers. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PHALANX (5)
Even then they had time to gather in a phalanx that would have been hard to break had they risen quickly, but this they were forbidden to do by the traditions of their race.
While thus he spake, th’ Angelic Squadron bright Turnd fierie red, sharpning in mooned hornes Thir Phalanx, and began to hemm him round With ported Spears, as thick as when a field Of _Ceres_ ripe for harvest waving bends Her bearded Grove of ears, which way the wind Swayes them; the careful Plowman doubting stands Least on the threshing floore his hopeful sheaves Prove chaff.
What I saw was a solid phalanx of armed men between myself and a dais supporting a great bench of carved sorapus wood.
Black Swans As I lie at rest on a patch of clover In the Western Park when the day is done, I watch as the wild black swans fly over With their phalanx turned to the sinking sun; And I hear the clang of their leader crying To a lagging mate in the rearward flying, And they fade away in the darkness dying, Where the stars are mustering one by one.
The Roll of the Kettledrum; or, The Lay of the Last Charger "You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?"--Byron.
Quotes with PHALANX (3)
People don't like to talk about alcohol. They don't like to think about it, except in the most superficial of ways. They don't like to examine the damage it does and I don't blame them. I don't like it either. I know that desire for denial with every bone in my body: clavicle, sternum, femur and phalanx.
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman. And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks. Because the see bether than thay think.
Mental discipline, prayer and remoteness from the world and its disturbing visions reduce temptation to a minimum, but they can never entirely abolish it. In medieval traditions, abbeys and convents were always considered to be expugnable centres of revolt against infernal dominion on earth. They became, accordingly, special targets. Satan, issuing orders at nightfall to his foul precurrers, was rumoured to dispatch to capital cities only one junior fiend. This solitary demon…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1953–2019).