Crossword clues for cestus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cestus \Ces"tus\, n. [L. cestus girdle, Gr. ?, lit., stitched, embroidered.]
(Antiq.) A girdle; particularly that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power of exciting love.
(Zo["o]l.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species ( Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form.
Cestus \Ces"tus\, n. [L. caestus, and cestus.] (Antiq.) A covering for the hands of boxers, made of leather bands, and often loaded with lead or iron. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. 1 A leather fighting glove, frequently weighted with metal. 2 (context obsolete English) A girdle, especially that of Aphrodite (or Venus) which gave the wearer the power to excite love.
Wikipedia
A cestus or caestus is an ancient battle glove, sometimes used in pankration. They were worn like today's boxing gloves, but were made with leather strips and sometimes filled with iron plates or fitted with blades or spikes, and used as weapons.
Usage examples of "cestus".
King, who was dressed as for the hunt, cestus and clawed glove on his hands.
In among them darted a small, muscular man impossible to hit, tearing men from their saddle and silencing them with cestus or clawed glove.
Bards have written of the cestus of Venus, that turned the heads of all the world in successive generations.
We had rather, for our part, have the cestus of Rachel Halliday, that kept heads from being turned, and made everything go on harmoniously.
The initiatory contest between Lydon and Tetraides being less deadly than that between the other combatants, no sooner had they advanced to the middle of the arena than, as by common consent, the rest held back, to see how that contest should be decided, and wait till fiercer weapons might replace the cestus, ere they themselves commenced hostilities.
Starfleet records for the attack on Federation outpost on Cestus III, stardate 3045.
Round her zone was clasped The scintillant cestus, stiff with flaming gold, Thicker with restless gems than heaven with stars.
Certain of her power, She had laid by, in fond security, The enchanted cestus, and Sir Tannhauser, With surfeited regard, beheld her now, No fairer than the women of the earth, Whom with serenity and health he left, Duped by a lovely witch.
The cesti had been a sound idea, even if they were of no use at that moment.
She kept hold of its throat and squeezed, the cesti lending the choke hold an efficacy it might otherwise have lacked.
He was teacher of several of the most important Italian musicians of the following generation, among them being Bassani, Cesti, Buononcini and Alessandro Scarlatti.
Among these the more distinguished names are those of Cavalli, who wrote thirty-four operas for Venice alone, Legrenzi and Cesti.
For Esperanza, as well as Fred, Ashanté, several members of the speechwriting staff, and the president herself, that meant following the traditions of Cestus III—or, at least, Nan Bacco’s interpretations of them.
However, once the crew managed their way out of it, the Gorn did aid in the war effort, thanks in part to some fine negotiating between their new leadership and Nan Bacco, the planetary governor of Cestus III, the Federation world closest to Gorn space.