Crossword-Solution: SANDALWOOD
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sandalwood | n. | The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. |
| Sandalwood | n. | Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. |
| Sandalwood | n. | The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SANDALWOOD (5)
There was a vast shuffling of padded soles and a continuous interchange of singsong monosyllables, high-pitched and staccato, while from every hand rose the strange aromas of the East--sandalwood, punk, incense, oil, and the smell of mysterious cookery.
With gifts of scented sandalwood, And labdanum, and cassia-bud, With spicy spoils of Araby And camel-loads of ivory And heavy cloths that glanced and shone With inwrought pearl and beryl-stone She came, a bold Sabean girl.
The scents of red roses and sandalwood flutter and die in the maze of their gem-tangled hair, And smiles are entwining like magical serpents the poppies of lips that are opiate-sweet; Their glittering garments of purple are burning like tremulous dawns in the quivering air, And exquisite, subtle and slow are the tinkle and tread of their rhythmical, slumber-soft feet.
Such things as copaiba, cubebs, sandalwood, alcohol, coffee, etc., have their recognizable fragrance.
Then Robert wriggled out from under the stall with some Benares brass and some inlaid sandalwood boxes.
Quotes with SANDALWOOD (3)
One simply goes around doing egoism and then ultimately he ends up on the wood of the funeral pyre; such is the pitiful state. And if one is a very good person, he will be cremated with sandalwood. But it is all wood in the end. The true victor is the one who never dies.
Science uses the Red Shift to measure deep cosmic distances. But how to measure deep historic time? How about — the Saffron Shift. If history itself had a color, it is . . . like wood or bark, or living forest floor. Assigning hues to time periods, the sum total of history is saffron-brown — but the chromatic arc starts from blinding white (prehistory) to sun-yellow (Ancient Greece), then deepening to pale wood tones (Dark Ages) and finally exploding like an infinite chord in…
She was drowning in sandalwood and sunlight. Time ceased to be more than a notion. Her lips were hers one moment. And then they were his. The taste of him on her tongue was like sun-warmed honey. Like cool water sliding down her parched throat. Like the promise of all her tomorrows in a single sigh. When she wound her fingers in his hair to draw her body against his, he stilled for breath, and she knew, as he knew, that they were lost. Lost forever. In this kiss. This kiss that would change everything.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 21 times in crossword archives (1979–2024).