Crossword-Solution: PUGIL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pugil | n. | As much as is taken up between the thumb and two first fingers. |
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| GREEK fighter | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PUGIL (5)
ANOTHER WAY Take two Gallons of water; one Gallon of Honey: Parietary one handful; Sage, Thyme, one Pugil; Of Hyssop half a Pugil.
Put to this a little Pepper beaten small (white is the best) at discretion, as about a good pugil, and put a good spoonful of Sugar to it (which is not to make it taste sweet, but rather quick, and to help the fermentation) lay a good Onion in the bottom, quartered if you will, and a Race of Ginger scraped and bruised; and stir it often with a Horse-radish root cleansed, which let always lie in the pot, till it have lost it's vertue, then take a new one.
The patient, if he does not, as it has sometimes happened in the cases to which we have referred, become "pugil et medicum urget," is sure, as in those instances, to triumph over all the proofs which reason can suggest, or that the hellebore of nine Anticyras could furnish him with capacity to understand.
Take a Pugil or large Pinch between the Thumb and Fingers of Elder Flowers; put them into an earthen-ware Mug or Porrenger, with two Ounces of Honey, and an Ounce and a half of good Vinegar.
Take of the Tops of _Chamaedrys_ or Ground Oak, of the lesser Centaury, of Wormwood and of Camomile, of each one Pugil.