Unct vs Unch - What's the difference?
unct | unch |
(archaic) To anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.
* 1552 , ed. Catholic Church, John Hamilton, Thomas Graves Law, The Catechism of John Hamilton, Archbishop of St. Andrews, 1552 , published 1884, page 229
* 1769 , ,
* 2001 , Sheila Fischman tr., The Little Girl who was Too Fond of Matches: A Novel
(Ayurvedic medicine) To lubricate.
* {{quote-book, 2008, Swami Sadashiva Tirtha, The Ayurveda Encyclopedia, page=197
, passage=This is also an uncting procedure in which oil is dropped into the nose and expelled through the mouth.}}
(crossword puzzles) An unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).
* 1994 September 24, Ross Beresford , "symp10.zip - Crossword Grid Editor for MS Windows 3.1", comp.archives.msdos.announce , Usenet,
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* 2005 November 17, Colin Blackburn , "Re: 75 Years of the Times Crossword - quick review", rec.puzzles.crosswords , Usenet,
* 2006 , Nikki Katz, Zen and the Art of Crossword Puzzles , Adams Media, ISBN 1593375638, pages 66–67,
As a verb unct
is to anoint, especially a monarch or other patriarchal leader.As a noun unch is
an unchecked square: one that is part of only one entry (i.e., across or down, but not both).unct
English
Verb
(en verb)- The King was uncted in the nick of time
The Rowley Poems, "Englysh Metamorphosis",
- Tyll tyred with battles, for to ceese the fraie, / Theie uncted Brutus kynge, and gave the Trojanns swaie.
(original by [[w:Gaétan Soucy, Gaétan Soucy]), ISBN 1559705884, page 11,
- I suppose the prospect of the sly devils in the village forcing my brother and me to kick the bucket without even uncting us extremely skewered me in every direction on the barbecue grill of those ancient queries concerning hell and its kind.
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Synonyms
* (anoint) anoint, ointment * (lubricate) lubricate, oleateReferences
Anagrams
* * ----unch
English
Noun
(es)- The Sympathy Crossword Grid Editor supports:
- o flagging of lights outside a configurable unch range
- From 1933 onwards the grids were standard grids. Then, for some reason, there was a blip in the late 1940s, a couple of the grids from that era had double unches and double checking.
- The bars and multitude of black squares are common in British puzzles because they allow unchecked letters (called unches')—or letters that don't need to cross with another answer.... There are rules regarding the ' unches , and traditionally every other letter in a solution should be checked with another letter.