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Answer for the clue "Ms Belacqua ", 4 letters:
lyra

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n. (context anatomy dated English) The middle portion of the ventral surface of the fornix of the brain; so called from the arrangement of the lines with which it is marked in the human brain.

Usage examples of lyra.

The small lyre was like the tenor viola di braccio and was called the lyra di braccio.

The accompaniment on the mellow lyra di braccio, one of the tender sisters of the viola, was a simplified version of the subordinate voice parts of the frottola.

John Faa poured little glasses of jenniver from a stone crock for himself and Farder Coram, and wine for Lyra.

Lyra and the Costas got there in time to sit at the front, and as soon as the flickering lights showed that the place was crammed, John Faa and Farder Coram came out on the platform and sat behind the table.

Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him.

John Faa said to Lyra, and took the chair at the head of the table himself.

Lyra smiled up at the soldiers, even going so far as to blatantly bat her long eyelashes.

She introduced Lyra to them but not to Brier Iron-thorn, whose expression stopped her.

As Lyra reluctantly departed, Jame wondered if the old woman would also dismiss Brier Iron-thorn.

Lyra crawled toward Leda, who gripped the bottom of the mast so tightly Calliste could see the white of her knuckles.

Together with Leda, Calliste hauled Lyra up just as a wave crashed over the side of the railing, soaking them.

No, through Lyra rustled whispers of threat and danger, of Deccan spies searching for weaknesses, of enemies moving implacably closer.

Maybe, after a while, you could ravage Decca, but unless you killed every Deccan, Lyra, in the end, would be destroyed too.

The trouble was that because no one knew what these Gobblers looked like, anyone might be a Gobbler, as Lyra pointed out to the appalled gang, who were now all under her sway, collegers and gyptians alike.

At the same time, from gathering in impressions of Lyras, Kharl could sense that Hagen had stopped almost a glass earlier.