Crossword-Solution: SARCOPHAGUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sarcophagus | n. | A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. |
| Sarcophagus | n. | A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin. |
| Sarcophagus | n. | A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SARCOPHAGUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| 1981 National Spelling Bee's winning word: A tomb | 1 answer |
| Pyramid box | 1 answer |
| STONE coffin | 1 answer |
| Sculpted coffin | 1 answer |
| Coffin | 9 answers |
| a stone coffin | 11 answers |
| tomb | 47 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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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SARCOPHAGUS (5)
Propped up against the sarcophagus was an old yellow scroll of papyrus, and in front of it, in a wooden armchair, sat the owner of the room, his head thrown back, his widely-opened eyes directed in a horrified stare to the crocodile above him, and his blue, thick lips puffing loudly with every expiration.
For if there were not still a future before the French aristocracy, there would be no need to do more than find a suitable sarcophagus; it were something pitilessly cruel to burn the dead body of it with fire of Tophet.
The beautiful alabaster sarcophagus discovered near Thebes in 1817 and now in Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London measures 9 feet 4 inches long.
Over the gave stand the men who let down the body into its place; but, with John there, they do not meddle with the adjustment of the sarcophagus, and since they were so prostrated that they could not see, John had plenty of time to perform his special task.
Infessura tells us that in 1485 some workmen digging on the Appian Way came across an old Roman sarcophagus inscribed with the name ‘Julia, daughter of Claudius.’ On opening the coffer they found within its marble womb the body of a beautiful girl of about fifteen years of age, preserved by the embalmer’s skill from corruption and the decay of time.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2000–2003).