Crossword-Solution: DECOCTIONS
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| Extracts prepared by boiling. | 1 answer |
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Form of quartz with coloured bands
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Hint 1 meaning
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting
various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged
in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Hint 2 anagram
EATGA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with DECOCTIONS (5)
Then the coffee was brought, and a flask of Chartreuse for madame, for the Doctor despised and distrusted such decoctions; and then Aline left the wedded pair to the pleasures of memory and digestion.
Extraordinary things are related of its power in exciting the amorous passions, and, on this account, it is in great request amongst the Gypsy hags; all these women are procuresses, and find persons of both sexes weak and wicked enough to make use of their pretended knowledge in the composition of love-draughts and decoctions.
Noticing that the boy kept his place, the sailor said, “Step up, boy, and wet your whistle.” Phil liked the weak wines of his native land, but he did not care for the poisonous decoctions of be found in such places.
Galenical decoctions, to which I may properly compare an epic poem, have more of body in them; they work by their substance and their weight.
Save a few decoctions of roots, there were no medicines; the sick were fed the same coarse corn meal that brought about the malignant dysentery from which they all suffered; they wore and slept in the same vermin-infested clothes, and there could be but one result: the official records show that seventy-six per cent.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1955).