Crossword-Solution: ALUM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Alum | n. | A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization. |
| Alum | v. t. | To steep in, or otherwise impregnate with, a solution of alum; to treat with alum. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ALUM | anagram | AMUL, LAMU, LUMA, MAUL, MULA, ULAM |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAERE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ALUM (5)
And being of a noticing habit, he also observed that when Weintraub had occasion to write out a label for a box of powdered alum Mrs.
Mother gathered the fanciest every fall, dried them, and dipped them in melted alum coloured with copperas, aniline, and indigo.
Far down in the east a small black smudge upon the pearl-colored and vaporous horizon was all they could discern of a walled city filled with factories for the working of hemp and furs and alum and silk and bitumen.
But I vow your hair looks better as it is.” “Not so yours,” said she, like lightning; “‘twould look better to me hanging on the belt of one of them red devils.” In the morning, when he would have lifted the pack of alum salt, Polly Ann gave him a push that sent him sprawling.
This was said to be salt--which in Japan is credited with great cleansing properties--but as far as could be ascertained by superficial examination it was a mixture of alum and salt.
Quotes with ALUM (3)
Greed and our food supply. It is greed that compels dairymen to skim every bit of goodness from milk to make other products and then to fill the swill left with chalk and sell it at profit. Greed tempts butchers to grind up the meat of sick cows with well ones and mix it into sausage along with offal and dung to extend the amount of 'meat' that they can sell. Greed motivates bakers to use flour devoid of the wheat germ and the nutritious outer husk and to add alum and chlorin…
Whether people agree or disagree with the decisions an actor makes after their Disney tenure, every alum has a clear vision of how they want their career to pan out.
I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 946 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).