Anagrams of: XICS__

• A tool, similar to a hatchet, used to prepare slate for roofing.

• a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him

• an evil spell

• cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something

• foredoom to failure

• a shallow drinking cup with two handles; used in ancient Greece

• a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Puppis and Antlia

• fruit of such plants as the plantain; a capsule whose upper part falls off when the seeds are released

• a small box used by ancient Greeks to hold medicines

• creeping evergreen shrub having narrow overlapping leaves and early white star-shaped flowers; of the pine barrens of New Jersey and the Carolinas

• (folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous

• type genus of the Cimicidae: bedbugs

• a bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende

• coat or cover with zinc

• position six in a countable series of things

• one part in six equal parts

• the musical interval between one note and another six notes away from it

• coming next after the fifth and just before the seventh in position