Crossword-Solution: SESQUI
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SESQUI | anagram | SUSIEQ |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SESQUI”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Midway between uni- and bi- | 1 answer |
| One and a half: Comb. form | 1 answer |
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Dermatological complaint
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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
ECEMAZ
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SESQUI (5)
For, in Dutch, Ander halb, (another halfe) importeth, One and a halfe, as Sesqui alter doth in Latine.
The White Smelling Salt is the sesqui-carbonate of ammonia in powder, with which is mixed any perfuming otto that is thought fit,--lavender otto giving, as a general rule, the most satisfaction.
PRESTON SALTS, which is the cheapest of all the ammoniacal compounds, is composed of some easily decomposable salt of ammonia and lime, such as equal parts of muriate of ammonia, or of sesqui-carbonate of ammonia, and of fresh-slaked lime.
Modern advances in science and the use of Lord Rosse's famous telescope have demonstrated the absurdity of all these speculations by proving conclusively that the Moon is mainly composed of the _Ferro_--_sesqui_--_cyanuret, of the cyanide of potassium_! Up to the latest dates from the Atlantic States, no one has succeeded in reaching the Moon.
This deposit is, in common language, called per-oxide of iron, though this term is not, by chemists of the present day, deemed sufficiently accurate, and the word sesqui-oxide is preferred in scientific works.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1988–2012).