Crossword-Solution: PINAX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pinax | n. | A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on a tablet. |
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| Plaque in Greek antiquity | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TRAEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PINAX (5)
Consider whereabouts thou art in Cebe’s[123] table, or that old philosophical pinax[124] of the life of man; whether thou art still in the road of uncertainties; whether thou hast yet entered the narrow gate, got up the hill and asperous way which leadeth unto the house of sanity; or taken that purifying potion from the hand of sincere erudition, which may send thee clear and pure away unto a virtuous and happy life.
From the channels to the canon there are vertical openings corresponding to ventholes in a board above, which board is termed [Greek: pinax] in Greek.
The quick-beam [_ornus_, or as the _pinax_ more peculiarly, _fraxinus bubula_; others, the wild sorb] or (as some term it) the witchen, is a species of wild-ash.
Merrett, in his _Pinax_, mentions several places of this nation, where subterraneous-trees are found; as namely, in Cornwal, _ad finem terræ, in agris Flints_; in Penbroke-shire towards the shore, where they so abound, _ut totum littus_ (says the Doctor) _tanquam silva cædua apparet_; in Cheshire also (as we said) Cumberland and Anglesey, and several of our Euro-boreal tracts, and are called Noah’s-ark.
PINAX Rerum Naturalium BRITANNICARUM, continens VEGETABILIA, ANIMALIA & Fossilia ANGLIÆ, inchoatus; Auth.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).