Crossword-Solution: PELLICLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Pellicle | n. | A thin skin or film. |
| Pellicle | n. | A thin film formed on the surface of an evaporating solution. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “PELLICLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Thin, skinlike substance. | 1 answer |
| thin skin or film | 1 answer |
| Thin membrane | 2 answers |
| CUTICLE | 4 answers |
| thin skin | 4 answers |
| THIN coat | 5 answers |
| Thin Layer | 13 answers |
| Integument | 31 answers |
| outer coat | 47 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PELLICLE (5)
The most of this surface is, however, so rough as to be with difficulty polished, without in places removing entirely this pellicle of pure metal, and exposing a polished surface of the alloy used in plating.
This certainly would be the case, were it not that the young fruit, encased in a soft green husk, with the incipient meat adhering in a jelly-like pellicle to its sides, and containing a bumper of the most delicious nectar, is what they chiefly prize.
The grand old Mosibe, a tree yielding a bean with a thin red pellicle, said to be very fattening, had probably seen two hundred summers.
The dome of Boston State House, which is the centre of my little universe, was glittering in its fresh golden pellicle before I had reached the scriptural boundary of life.
When sufficient has been obtained the grain is put again in the mortar and pounded to remove the pellicle.
Quotes with PELLICLE (1)
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s geometric signs, In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor fell; And, when the second morning shone, We looked upon a world unknown, On nothing we could call our own. Around the glistening wonder bent The blue walls of the firmament, No cloud above, no earth below, — A universe of sky and snow!
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1955).