Crossword-Solution: QUICKLIME
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quicklime | a. | Calcium oxide; unslacked lime; -- so called because when wet it develops great heat. See 4th Lime, 2. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “QUICKLIME”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Alkaline substance used in plaster | 1 answer |
| Calcium oxide, in common parlance | 1 answer |
| LIME water ingredient | 1 answer |
| white solid used in the manufacture of glass and steel | 1 answer |
| Plaster ingredient | 2 answers |
| calcium oxide | 4 answers |
| Mortar ingredient | 4 answers |
| Cement ingredient | 4 answers |
| A WHITE CRYSTALLINE OXIDE USED IN THE PRODUCTION OF CALCIUM HYDROXIDE | 10 answers |
| CALCIUM SOURCE | 11 answers |
| CALCIUM ___ | 12 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with QUICKLIME (5)
The Warders strutted up and down, And kept their herd of brutes, Their uniforms were spick and span, And they wore their Sunday suits, But we knew the work they had been at By the quicklime on their boots.
The hole was filled with quicklime, and the bystanders, as if relieved of some oppression, broke at once into a sound of whispered speech.
Then he took some water, and throwing it on the quicklime he lighted it the way a straw lights a candle.
The solid piles which contained the cupola were composed of huge blocks of freestone, hewn into squares and triangles, fortified by circles of iron, and firmly cemented by the infusion of lead and quicklime: but the weight of the cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance, which consists either of pumice-stone that floats in the water, or of bricks from the Isle of Rhodes, five times less ponderous than the ordinary sort.
There is some considerable distance between this “mound” of quicklime and the crypt, of which Durdles has the key, but the intervening space is quite empty of human presence, as the citizens are unwilling to meet ghosts.
Quotes with QUICKLIME (3)
Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing. I am weary, even more than I am ashamed, of seeing such things. Nowadays people are as good as born in their clothes, and there is practically not a nude human being in existence. An artist, therefore, as you must candidly confess, cannot sculpture nudity with a pure heart, if only…
The green sea swept into the shallows and seethed there like slaking quicklime. It surged over the rocks, tossing up spangles of water like a juggler and catching them deftly again behind. It raced knee-deep through the clefts and crevices, twisted and tortured in a thousand ways, till it swept nuzzling and sucking into the holes at the base of the cliff. The whole reef was a shambles of foam, but it was bright in the sun, bright as a shattered mirror, exuberant and leaping with light.
I took a glass retort, capable of containing eight ounces of water, and distilled fuming spirit of nitre according to the usual method. In the beginning the acid passed over red, then it became colourless, and lastly again all red: no sooner did this happen, then I took away the receiver; and tied to the mouth of the retort a bladder emptied of air, which I had moistened in its inside with milk of lime lac calcis, (i.e. lime-water, containing more quicklime than water can dis…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1969–2020).