Crossword-Solution: SANDARACH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sandarach | n. | Alt. of Sandarac |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SANDARACH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sandarac | 4 answers |
| VARNISH-making material | 6 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
CAZMEE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SANDARACH (5)
The following are bodies which acquired no conducting power upon assuming the liquid state:-- Sulphur, phosphorus; iodide of sulphur, per-iodide of tin; orpiment, realgar; glacial acetic acid, mixed margaric and oleic acids, artificial camphor; caffeine, sugar, adipocire, stearine of cocoa-nut oil, spermaceti, camphor, naphthaline, resin, gum sandarach, shell lac.
The following is a varnish for iron and steel given by a recognized authority: 5 parts of camphor and elemi, 15 parts of sandarach, and 10 parts of clear grains of mastic, are dissolved in the requisite quantity of alcohol, and applied cold.
The following original recipe as first invented has been extracted from a French work, the _Dictionnaire Technologique_, not, however, for its usefulness (it having gone into disuse many years ago), but as a matter of curiosity:-- "_French Polish._" Gum sandarach 14 ounces 2 drachms Gum mastic in drops 7 " 2 " Shellac (the yellower the better) 14 " 2 " Alcohol of 0.8295 specific gravity 3 quarts and 1 pint.
Probably the shrub gets its name from the Celtic _jeneprus_, "rude or rough." Gerard notes that "it grows most commonly very low, like unto our ground furzes." Gum Sandarach, or Pounce, is the product of this tree.
This runs into it, and at once makes that vast river bitter, for the reason that the water of the brook becomes bitter by flowing through the kind of soil and the veins in which there are sandarach mines.