Crossword-Solution: CALLUSED 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

Her husband's thick mane of yellow hair was disordered and rumpled upon his great square-cut head; his big red ears were redder than ever; his face was purple; the thick eyebrows were knotted over the small, twinkling eyes; the heavy yellow mustache, that smelt of alcohol, drooped over the massive, protruding chin, salient, like that of the carnivora; the veins were swollen and throbbing on his thick red neck; while over her head Trina saw his upraised palm, callused, enormous.

American.” “How long sence you mine?” “Oh, year or two.” “Show your hends.” McTeague exhibited his hard, callused palms.

Before he had begun to take it easy, six o'clock had seen the entire mechanism of his busy little world humming smoothly and sweetly, the whole set in motion by his own big work-callused hands.

Inoculations in the callused margins of cankers showed usually only slight growth of the fungus after two months' time in the summer, or in some cases no growth at all.

Several layers of wood could be counted underneath these callused margins--often 6 or 7--before reaching the annual ring exposed at the surface of the canker.