Crossword-Solution: SCUMS
We have 9 clues for the answer “SCUMS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Covering of some stagnant pools. | 1 answer |
| Dirty layers | 1 answer |
| Features of stagnant waters. | 1 answer |
| Filmy layers on some ponds. | 1 answer |
| Forms a film, as in fermenting. | 1 answer |
| Removes dross | 1 answer |
| Stagnates, as a pond | 1 answer |
| Dirty films? | 2 answers |
| Drosses | 2 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 SCUMS (5)
Where is he?’ ‘He is on the outlook for these scums of the earth,’ answered Davies; ‘but it is to no purpose to know when they come, if we are not to stand to our weapons.’ ‘We will use none but those of sense and reason, John.’ ‘And you may just as well cast chaff against the wind, as speak sense and reason to the like of them.’ ‘Well, well, be it so,’ said Joshua; ‘and now, John Davies, I know thou art what the world calls a brave fellow, and I have ever found thee an honest one.
Mixing of filter press scums with diffusion juices is said to offer special advantages for the preliminary purification.
Nor can I express with what dearness of affection he would be received in all those countreys which have suffered by those forrein scums, with what thirst of revenge, with what resolution of fidelity, with what piety, with what tears.
They are very common and familiar plants, some of them forming great floating masses upon the surface of every stagnant pond and ditch, being commonly known as "pond scum." The commonest of these pond scums belong to the genus _Spirogyra_, and one of these will illustrate the characteristics of the order.
All × 150.] There are various genera of the pond scums, differing in the form of the chloroplasts and also in the position of the spores.
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Appears in: LAT, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1952–2004).