Crossword-Solution: PLEIONE
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLEIONE | anagram | OPENLIE |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PLEIONE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ALCYONE, mother of | 1 answer |
| ASTEROPE, mother of | 1 answer |
| ATLAS, wife of | 1 answer |
| MAIA, mother of | 1 answer |
| Mythical mother of Maia | 1 answer |
| PLEIADES, mother of | 1 answer |
| STEROPE, mother of | 1 answer |
| CELAENO, mother of | 2 answers |
| ELECTRA, mother of | 4 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
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eruption
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Sentences with PLEIONE (5)
Never the Theban Seer,4 whose blindness proved His best illumination, Him beheld 30 In secret vision; never him the son Of Pleione,5 amid the noiseless night Descending, to the prophet-choir reveal'd; Him never knew th'Assyrian priest,6 who yet The ancestry of Ninus7 chronicles, And Belus, and Osiris far-renown'd; Nor even Thrice-great Hermes,7 although skill'd So deep in myst'ry, to the worshippers Of Isis show'd a prodigy like Him.
The names given to the individual stars are those of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione; thus Milton terms them the Seven Atlantic Sisters.
Some of the stars are known to be slightly variable, and one of the fainter stars in the cluster may have shone more brightly in olden time;--the gaseous spectrum of Pleione renders it credible that this star may once have had great brilliancy.
The Euphratean myth of the dogs has its parallel in Greece, Sirius being the hound of the hunter Orion, and as recorded by Aratus always chasing the Hare; Pindar refers to the chase of Pleione, the mother of the Pleiads, by Orion and his dogs.
PLEIAD, pl[=i]'ad, _n._ one of the seven daughters of Atlas and Pleione, after death changed into stars:--_pl._ PLEI'ADS, PLEI'ADES, (_astron._) a group of seven or more stars in the shoulder of the constellation Taurus.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2002).