Crossword-Solution: EMOLLIENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Emollient | a. | Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. |
| Emollient | n. | An external something or soothing application to allay irritation, soreness, etc. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EMOLLIENT (5)
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment! All hail, all hail, divine emollient! (all rise) KING: You may go, for you're at liberty, our pirate rules protect you, And honorary members of our band we do elect you! SAMUEL: For he is an orphan boy! CHORUS: He is! Hurrah for the orphan boy! GENERAL: And it sometimes is a useful thing To be an orphan boy.
Such was the casual origin of one of Paré’s greatest improvements in the treatment of gun-shot wounds; and he proceeded to adopt the emollient treatment in all future cases.
Sir James had invited Trent to an emollient dinner, and thereafter offered him what seemed to the young man a fantastically large sum for his temporary services as special representative of the _Record_ at Ilkley.
Some people advised John to bleed Frog under the tongue, or take away his bread-and-butter, which would certainly make him speak; to give Esquire South hellebore; as for Lewis, some were for emollient poultices, others for opening his arm with an incision knife.
Hampton-Evey's work among the poor--emollient doses that irritated her to fret and paw, as at a checking of her onset.
Quotes with EMOLLIENT (1)
To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question. "Let us admit the case of the conservative," John Dewey once wrote. "If we once start thinking no one can guarantee what will be the outcome,…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1967–2011).