My first may be divided into three parts. It may belong to one of the senses; it may be almost a lake; or it may represent 100.
My second may likewise be divided into three parts. It may have something to do with myself; it may be a part of myself; or it may represent 1.
My third may be divided into two parts. It may be either a river, or represent 500.
Then 100, 1, and 500 make the answer.
The whole was the title of one who surprised Europe by the brilliancy of his military exploits.
A fragment, an article of dress, a noise, an animal, a fruit, and a part of the body. The initials of these spell my whole, out of which I hope you will always keep.
Entire I’m a useful quadruped; remove my first, and I become a species of grain; replace my first, and remove my last, and I am a city famed for its inquisition.
How can you take something from nothing, and leave a number?
Entire I am very useful in machines; take away my first letter, and I am a part of the body; take away my first and second, and I am a species of snake.
Add to an article, in every-day use, a letter, and it becomes another useful article; with a third letter it becomes a girl’s name, and with a fourth letter another name; with a fifth letter it becomes an historical record, and with a sixth letter it is much the same thing, only more so.
I am composed of five letters.
My first is the same as my last.
My second is the initial of the name of a very old gardener.
My third you will find in the centre of the largest city in America.
My fourth is the initial of the name of a man that King David used rather badly.
My fifth is the same as my first.
My whole is two monosyllables that publishers often say to their subscribers, and like to have them respond to.
Entire, I am a reptile. Behead me, and I become an article much used by carpenters. Take away another letter, and I shall not be well.
Entire I am a vegetable. Cut off my tail, and I am a small insect. Put on my tail, and take away my third letter, and I am what gamblers often do.
What eight words of four letters will resolve themselves into four different words each?
I am the name of something felt, but never seen. Take away my third letter, and you have an utensil much used in pastry-cooking. Reverse it, and you have something quite refreshing on summer afternoons. Take away my second, and you have a very important article in a lady’s toilet. Take away my first and third, and you have a rather indefinite article.
The name of a great city in Europe.
Transpose, I am an adjective of the comparative degree.
Cut off my last two letters, and reverse, I am a preposition.
Drop my first two letters, I am a pronoun.
Leave out my second letter, and transpose, I am a French word signifying sea.
Drop the first and last two letters, I am an interjection.
Drop my third letter and transpose, I am unrefined metal.
Entire I am polite. My fifth multiplied by the sum of my second and fourth, produces my first. My second and third multiplied by my fifth, is twice my first.
It is a compound word, and belongs to the mineral, and sometimes vegetable kingdom. The whole word is used to contain the first. There are six letters in the first, and two vowels. The last word spelled backward, is a toy that boys play with. The first two letters of the last word is the name of a river in Europe. The first word spelled differently, but pronounced the same, is a substance of which an important article of food is made.
Entire I am a bird. Take away my last two, and I am a bird. Behead me and cut off my tail, and I signify perpetuity. Cut off my first two, and I am an exclamation!
What city is there, whose name, if transposed, will give you a name considered very disgraceful in the time of the revolutionary war; transposed again, you have a term applied to one not very proficient.
I am a proper name of two syllables.
My first syllable is a place where wild beasts may often be found.
My first syllable backward is a boy’s nickname.
My second syllable backward is the worst thing in the world.
In full dress, I am considered finished; take off my cap, and I am a number; put on my cap and take off my shoes, and I am a title.
I am something which fishermen use. Behead me, and I become food for horses. Put on my head and cut off my tail, and I am a large serpent.
Entire, I am one drop of liquid; behead me, and I become a part of the human frame; put on my head and cut off my tail, and I am a plant.
I am a pronominal adjective; behead me and I am personal pronoun; again behead me and I am a verb.
Unbroken I am a term sometimes applied to the atmosphere; remove my first, and I am a king famed in tragedy; remove my first and second, I am a part of the human body; remove my first, second, and third, and I am a city mentioned in the Bible; remove my first and last, and I am an inclosure.
What preposition by prefixing a letter is what we do every day; by prefixing another, is what we have in summer; by prefixing yet another, is a kind of grain?
Entire I often cause great pain; beheaded I am boisterous; curtailed you see a heathen deity; transposed I describe a course.
What wicked deed is that which, read backward, gives what is generally the cause of it?
What two consonants and one vowel can be so arranged as to spell the name of an animal, a name applied to a particular class of men, and a word expressing human ability?
I am a word of evil import. Without my hat I am almost as bad; place my wig at my feet, I am no better; my last two letters make me slightly ill, and with my second, fourth, and fifth letters transposed, I am utterly false.
It is a compound word, calling to mind social pleasures. The subject of a pretty Scotch song, and the place in the family most missed by the absent. The first four letters form the name of a cruel master. Take my second, third, and fourth, and it is a wicked passion. The last four letters form a part of the animal body. Put the fifth letter after the last three, and you will see a term used among the ancient Romans in regard to time. Transpose the first four, and it means prevailing. Transpose the last three, and, as a noun, it is anxiously watched by the gambler; and, as a verb, puts an end to earthly joys and sorrows. Remove the third letter, and the first, second, and fourth is an exclamation.
I am something very beautiful, which you can look at, but never touch: spell me backward, and I do a great deal of mischief.
Entire I am a pronoun in the second person. Take away my first letter, and I am a pronoun still, but in the first person; put on my first, and take away my last letter, and I am again a pronoun in the second person.
ASTRONOMICAL ENIGMA.
I am composed of twenty letters.
My 1, 2, 6, 7, is a star in the constellation Cetus.
My 6, 15, 10, 12, 3, is one of the signs of the Zodiac.
My 11, 6, 8, 4, is a star in Argo Navio.
My 6, 20, 13, 19, 11, 6, is a star in Gemina.
My 1, 6, 7, 16, 10, 5, is a star in Serpentarino.
My 1, 12, 15, 6, 17, 18, is a star in Andromeda.
My 9, 14, 8, is one of the constellations.
My whole is the name of one who rendered Astronomy no inconsiderable aid.
I am composed of 24 letters.
My 8, 3, 9, 21, is an accumulation.
My 16, 9, 1, 14, 23, is a machine.
My 2, 5, 4, 22, is a dear place.
My 6, 5, 5, 18, 11, 17, 6, is of the fowl species.
My 10, 7, 9, 1, is a resting-place.
My 21, 12, 9, 13, is a sort of turf.
My 19, 11, 15, 9, 4, is a vapor.
My 20, 3, 15, 24, is a germinating article.
My whole is an old proverb.
I am composed of seventeen letters.
My 14, 3, 10, is a weight.
My 6, 11, 4, 13, 15, is a place of abode.
My 2, 16, 8, 14, is to stop.
My 12, 15, 10, 1, is a part of an encampment.
My 5, 7, 17, 9, is a product of the sea.
My whole is a part of the decalogue.
I am composed of ten letters.
My 1, 2, 7, is an animal.
My 6, 5, 10, 7, most birds have.
My 1, 2, 3, 7, is a vehicle.
My 4, 8, 6, is a place where hogs are kept.
My 1, 2, 9, 4, 8, 7, is a kind of covering.
A class of mechanics expresses my whole.
I am composed of seven letters.
My 6, 7, 4, was used in war.
My 6, 4, 5, 2, 3, 1, is a seat of war.
My 2, 7, 4, 3, is a useful animal.
My whole is loved by every true-hearted American.
My 4, 2, 7, 10, is a planet, a chemical combination, and a town.
My 23, 10, 1, 14, 4, 21, 16, 15, was a witty French writer.
My 17, 16, 8, 19, 18, 1, 6, 18, 12, 20, 23, 7, is a little watchman, who always carries his lamp with him.
Divine honors were paid by an ancient eastern nation to the 22, 1, 3, 11.
My 11, 6, 23, 14, is a title.
Nature herself inspired the pencil of 9, 13, 21, 2, 5, 14, 8, 20, 4, 4, 20, 14.
My 9, 21, 23, 14, is a part of the inheritance of man.
My whole is a pleasant, but rather profitless occupation, which you can express in 23 letters.
Two boys, one named 25, 13, 24, 19, 17, 15, and the other 6, 20, 21, 7, 8, 27, went to 27, 14, 17 their uncle 7—— one 15, 4, 13, 6, 14, 19. He had 6, 15, 21 fine 20, 21, 3, 5, 14, 9, but he forbid the 22, 8, 12, 27 to 19, 4, 24, 17, without his 1, 21, 13, 9, 14, 11, 6. But master 6. was a 1, 8, 3, 14, 22, 17, 5, 5 and 15, 4, 22, 24 boy, but his brother 25. was obedient to his uncle’s 15, 4, 27, 2, 14, 9. One 12, 10, 16, master 6. said to his brother, “Let’s 27, 8, 12, 12, 22, 14 the 20, 21, 19, 9, 17, 27, for we have a fine 1, 2, 10, 11, 1, 17. Uncle has gone to 6, 21, 15, 13.” “11, 21, indeed,” answered 7, 25, 27, 6, 14, 19, 25.; “20, 21, 15 can you 12, 21 what you 9, 18, 26? Has not uncle forbid us to 19, 23, 12, 17 them?” But master 6. did not 10, 6, 6, 14, 13, 24 to what his brother said. He took 21, 13, 17 of the 20, 21, 3, 5, 14, 27 and 19, 21, 24, 14—2, 23, 7, but was 6, 2, 3, 21, 15, 11 and severely hurt, and having disregarded his uncle’s 1, 21, 7, 7, 8, 11, 24, 27, he 22, 21, 9, 6 his good opinion and 22, 10, 26—23, 22, 22 for 6, 2, 19, 14, 14 weeks, and during the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27.
I am composed of 22 letters.
My 14, 16, 10, 7, was the founder of Kentucky.
My 11, 13, 16, 4, 8, 19, 1, is the Empire State of the South.
My 18, 3, 7, 6, 12, the cause of the late panic.
My 1, 15, 17, 6, 4, 21, 15, what young ladies love to be.
My 17, 10, 9, 21, 22, 20, what they ought to be.
My 2, 1, 20 is an animal.
My whole is a familiar proverb.
I am composed of 21 letters.
My 3, 2, 12, 16, is a fixed principle in the art of fencing.
My 13, 4, 10, 8, is a beverage.
My 19, 5, 7, 1, 16, is what nobody would wish to lose.
My 15, 20, 6, 16, 14, 8, is a relation.
My 17, 9, 21, 10, are animals.
My 18, 6, 14, is a great ally of experience.
My 11, 20, 7, is a fruit.
My whole is a proverb.
I am composed of 27 letters.
My 3, 23, 20, 22, 9, 17, was the name of a celebrated Egyptian.
My 2, 7, 15, 9, 26, 10, was the name of an ambitious Roman, who was elected Consul six times.
My 8, 26, 17, 22, 14, 19, was the name of a man who was a great favorite with Queen Elizabeth.
My 13, 9, 8, 7, was the name of a Latin poet, born in 1470, died 1566.
My 8, 1, 24, 12, 6, 22, 16, 27, was the name of a Sicilian, who learned a lesson from Dionysius.
My 1, 18, 16, 4, 11, 15, 21, 24, 25, 5, 14, was the name of a brave English general, who received his death wound at the battle of Alexandria, on the 21st of March, 1801.
My whole is an event which occurred in Henry the Seventh’s reign, and materially affected the interests of this country.
I am composed of 39 letters.
Never be 8, 18, 35, 12, 28, and cruel to the 31, 38, 1, 5, 17, 7, 31, 26, 25, 19, 9, but be 33, 29, 26, 23, 3, 13, and 4, 5, 30, 11, 38, 33; if 10, 13,—16, 11, 32, 3, we may relieve, 36, 34, 38, 39 a 12, 2, 22, 21,—20, 15, 37,17, 27, by a mere 12, 24, 2, 6,—5, 14, sympathy.