Crossword-Solution: CALLUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Callus | n. | Same as Callosity |
| Callus | n. | The material of repair in fractures of bone; a substance exuded at the site of fracture, which is at first soft or cartilaginous in consistence, but is ultimately converted into true bone and unites the fragments into a single piece. |
| Callus | n. | The new formation over the end of a cutting, before it puts out rootlets. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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greedy person
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Sentences with CALLUS (5)
And therefore almost all Are covered either with hides, or else with shells, Or with the horny callus, or with bark.
Then followed seizures, law-suits, costs, and the whole judicial array set in motion with the rapidity of what the head’s-man calls the “mechanism.” Molineux granted neither grace nor time; his heart was a callus in the direction of a lease.
There are in Paris many women who, like the Countess Ferraud, live with an unknown moral monster, or on the brink of an abyss; a callus forms over the spot that tortures them, and they can still laugh and enjoy themselves.
Whatever mortifications he may deem necessary as to the passions of this poor flesh, if he imitates the example of Christ he cannot deny those better affections which link us even to God; he cannot harden those sensitive fibres which are the springs of our best action,--which if callus we become inhuman.
And although, because of the cold, as from a callus, all feeling had left its abode in my face, it now seemed to me I felt some wind, wherefore I, “My Master, who moves this? Is not every vapor[1] quenched here below?” Whereon he to me, “Speedily shalt thou be where thine eye shall make answer to thee of this, beholding the cause that rains down the blast.” [1] Wind being supposed to be cansed by the action of the sun on the vapors of the atmosphere.
Quotes with CALLUS (3)
-BDB on the board-Knitter's Anonimous May 8, 2006Rhage (in his bedroom posting in V's room on the board) Hi, my name is V.("Hi, V") I've been knitting for 125 years now.(*gasping noises*) It's begun to impact my personal relationships: my brothers think I'm a nancy. It's begun to affect my health: I'm getting a callus on my forefinger and I find bits of yarn in all my pockets and I'm starting to smell like wool. I can't concentrate at work: I keep picturing all these lessers …
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 18 times in crossword archives (1996–2025).