Crossword-Solution: UNCIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Uncia | n. | A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce. |
| Uncia | n. | A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “UNCIA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| BOLIVIAN mining town | 1 answer |
| Roman ounce | 1 answer |
| twelfth | 1 answer |
| Twelfth part | 2 answers |
| Snow leopard | 3 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
MZEEAC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with UNCIA (5)
Redit uncia: quid fit? On Nature's pattern too I'll bid him look, And copy manners from her living book.
The cause for this application of the term is rather difficult to see; it originally meant five-twelfths of an _uncia_; possibly it was thus applied because by drawing lines between the points the letter V (five) might be produced.
The counters were made of various materials, ivory principally, “Adeo nulla uncia nobis est eboris, etc.” (Juv.
Never, perhaps, has so unhappy an error been made in a work of an arithmetical and mathematical character.] [Footnote 261: Thus, after deducing the length of the cubit of Memphis from the length of the King's Chamber, Sir Isaac Newton observes:--"From hence I would infer that the Sacred Cubit of Moses was equal to 25 unciæ of the Roman foot and 6/10 of an _uncia_." (See his _Dissertation on the Sacred Cubit_, as republished in Professor Smyth's _Life and Work at the Great Pyramid_, vol.
Lynx.] (Zoöl.) Defn: A feline quadruped (Felis irbis, or uncia) resembling the leopard in size, and somewhat in color, but it has longer and thicker fur, which forms a short mane on the back.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1993).