Crossword clues for persians
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Persian \Per"sian\, a. [From Persia: cf. It. Persiano. Cf. Parsee, Peach, Persic.] Of or pertaining to Persia, to the Persians, or to their language.
Persian berry, the fruit of Rhamnus infectorius, a kind of buckthorn, used for dyeing yellow, and imported chiefly from Trebizond.
Persian cat. (Zo["o]l.) Same as Angora cat, under Angora.
Persian columns (Arch.), columns of which the shaft represents a Persian slave; -- called also Persians. See Atlantes.
Persian drill (Mech.), a drill which is turned by pushing a nut back and forth along a spirally grooved drill holder.
Persian fire (Med.), malignant pustule.
Persian powder. See Insect powder, under Insect.
Persian red. See Indian red (a), under Indian.
Persian wheel, a noria; a tympanum. See Noria.
Usage examples of "persians".
As he examined the exterior fortifications of Maogamalcha, two Persians, devoting themselves for their country, suddenly rushed upon him with drawn cimeters: the emperor dexterously received their blows on his uplifted shield.
The name and cause of the Abbassides had been first vindicated by the Persians: the West had been pure from civil arms.
Four thousand Persians, intrenched in the camp of Dubis, vanquished, almost without a combat, this disorderly multitude.
Despair united their counsels and invigorated their arms: they withstood the assault of the Persians and the flight of Nacoragan preceded or followed the slaughter of ten thousand of his bravest soldiers.
Hence arose the misapprehension of some of the Greeks, who have said that Mithra was the summus deus of the Persians: he has a thousand ears and ten thousand eyes.
The Persians expressed their desire of being introduced to the presence of the Roman emperor.
The public expected that the successor of Carus would pursue his father's footsteps, and, without allowing the Persians to recover from their consternation, would advance sword in hand to the palaces of Susa and Ecbatana.
The feeble emperor was unable to subdue their obstinate prejudice, and the Persians wondered at the unexpected retreat of a victorious enemy.
But the Persians were no sooner advanced into the plains of Mesopotamia, than they discovered that every precaution had been used which could retard their progress, or defeat their design.
The obscure domestic, exalted to the throne by fortune, rather than by merit, was impatient to escape from the hands of the Persians, that he might prevent the designs of Procopius, who commanded the army of Mesopotamia, and establish his doubtful reign over the legions and provinces which were still ignorant of the hasty and tumultuous choice of the camp beyond the Tigris.
The Persians were surprised and repulsed under the walls of Artogerassa, by a bold and well-concerted sally of the besieged.
The Persians followed, without a murmur, the commands of a single chief, who implicitly obeyed the instructions of their supreme lord.
Pelusium, the key of that impervious country, was surprised by the cavalry of the Persians: they passed, with impunity, the innumerable channels of the Delta, and explored the long valley of the Nile, from the pyramids of Memphis to the confines of Aethiopia.
Sir John Chardin has too faithfully copied the fables and errors of the modern Persians, (Voyages, tom.
When the Persians shoot with the bow, they frequently cry, "May this arrow go to the heart of Omar!