Anagrams of: BOATABLE

• Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Darien and became the first European to see the eastern shores of the Pacific Ocean (1475-1519)

• the basic unit of money in Panama; equal to 100 centesimos

• the superior of an abbey of monks

• a confusion of voices and other sounds

• (Genesis 11:1-11) a tower built by Noah's descendants (probably in Babylon) who intended it to reach up to heaven; God foiled them by confusing their language so they could no longer understand one another

• a small cake leavened with yeast

• Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

• A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

• A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

• An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.

• an indistinct shapeless form

• make a spot or mark onto

• divulge confidential information or secrets

• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

• a French abbot

• having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles

• a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life