Crossword-Solution: SENARY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Senary | a. | Of six; belonging to six; containing six. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SENARY | anagram | YEARNS |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SENARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Based on the number six | 1 answer |
| In base 6 | 1 answer |
| Like a six-year celebration | 1 answer |
| Of six. | 1 answer |
| Of the number six | 1 answer |
| Sextuple. | 1 answer |
| of or relating to the number six | 1 answer |
| SIX, group of | 4 answers |
| Group of six | 6 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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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SENARY (5)
Now and then some anomalous fragment is found imbedded in an otherwise regular system, which carries us back to the time when the savage was groping his way onward in his attempt to give expression to some number greater than any he had ever used before; and now and then one of these fragments is such as to lead us to the border land of the might-have-been, and to cause us to speculate on the possibility of so great a numerical curiosity as a senary or a septenary scale.
One remarkably interesting number system is that exhibited by the Mosquito tribe[212] of Central America, who possess an extensive quinary-vigesimal scale containing one binary and three senary compounds.
Thus our duodecimal coinage has led to the practice of counting by sixes, and produced a philological curiosity, a real senary notation." In addition to the two methods of counting here alluded to, another may be mentioned, which is equally instructive as showing how readily any special method of reckoning may be developed out of the needs arising in connection with any special line of work.
But no one has, because of this likeness, ever suggested that these tribes ever counted by the senary method.
The sages applied the senary to the physical man; while the septenary was, for them, the symbol of his immortal spirit.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1952–2019).