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Answer for the clue "Solar feature visible during an eclipse ", 6 letters:
corona

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Corona is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alessandro Corona (born 1972), Italian rower Bert Corona (1918–2001), American labor and civil rights leader Fabrizio Corona (born 1974), Italian photographer, media personality and actor Fernando ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Around them, in a sun's corona , severed legs and arms. ▪ It was immediately surrounded by a glowing octarine corona as the rising magical wind roared past. ▪ Ought he to deal out a full corona pattern? ▪ The flare-like component ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hold \Hold\ (h[=o]ld), n. The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms; the manner of holding, whether firm or loose; seizure; grasp; clasp; grip; possession; -- often used with the verbs take and lay. Ne have I not twelve pence within mine hold. ...

Usage examples of corona.

But these precautions availed him nothing against the impetuous onslaught of the French, who in a few days had taken Annona, Arezzo, Novarro, Voghiera, Castelnuovo, Ponte Corona, Tartone, and Alessandria, while Trivulce was on the march to Milan.

When he stopped down its brilliance in his optics, he perceived the disk maned with corona and elflock prominences, winged with zodiacal light.

He found a mapping to a point-exit only a hundred million miles from its fiery corona, and he entered back into the manifold to complete this simple fallaway from one window to another.

This stretching taut of the penile skin significantly increases the sensitivity of the frenulum and glans as he forms a ring with his thumb and index finger and clasps just below the corona.

Corona and northern Oronesia must work out a means of defending the Hesperian Sea.

Even the hoodlike envelopes of the corona were invisible, lost in the pixie-dust glitter of the inner coma.

He gasped as the shuttle rolled and its entire side opened A corona of superheated air ripped past, lethally beautiful on the far side of a mono-permeable field of force.

LSD afterglow conferred, some milky corona, like almost a halo of approved grace, made all the milkier by the faultless nonchalance of a Moms who made it clear that his value was not contingent on winning first or even second prize, ever.

La cerimonia non fu lunga ma semplice, patriarcale, al cospetto della maggior parte di quei prodi romani, che facevano corona alla bellissima coppia.

Aboard the Seacraft, which was also rented, Stranahan found an Igloo cooler with two six-packs of Corona and a couple of cheap spinning rods that the killer had brought along just for looks.

Even got a sixpack of Corona, so we could pretend we were party animals.

Before I continue I should tell you that we attached to our telelens a cinematic spectroscope, the better to ascertain changes of elements taking place within the corona.

Wheatly sat on the big sofa, mostly ignoring the mug of coffee Vidalia had insisted someone bring him, while other officers, Jimmy Corona and his long-time partner, fellow former Chicago cop Colby Benton among them, were upstairs, doing whatever it was cops did in cases like this.

Through the near porthole Defoe saw the green-brown limb of the planet rising to greet him, edged by a thin corona of atmosphere.

But the prominences are rarely large enough to be noticed by the naked eye, while the streamers of the corona, stretching far away in space, like ghostly banners blown out from the black circle of the obscuring moon, attract every eye, and to this weird apparition much of the fear inspired by eclipses has been due.