Crossword-Solution: SPERMACETI
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| Spermaceti | n. | A white waxy substance obtained from cavities in the head of the sperm whale, and used making candles, oilments, cosmetics, etc. It consists essentially of ethereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. |
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| SPERMACETI | anagram | IMPRECATES |
We have 4 clues for the answer “SPERMACETI”
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| SPERM oil (solid), constituent of | 1 answer |
| Waxy substance in head of sperm whale | 1 answer |
| a wax-like substance used in candles, ointments, etc, obtained from oil of sperm-whale, etc | 1 answer |
| WAX, type of | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with SPERMACETI (5)
Last of all, a Chinaman cut a hole through the “case,” and, actually descending into the inside of the head, stripped away the spermaceti (clear as crystal), and packed it into buckets, which were hauled up on the junk's deck.
And they did not release the schooner until the whale had been emptied of oil and blubber, spermaceti and bone.
Like all Chinamen, Hoang was true to his promises, and he had already set apart three and a half barrels of spermaceti, ten barrels of oil, and some twenty pounds of bone as the schooner's share in the transaction.
Seeing the poor man in this distressed condition, the writer begged him to be comforted, and not to take the matter so much to heart; but the indignant Radical took the matter very much to heart, and refused all comfort whatever, bouncing about the room, and, whilst his spectacles flashed in the light of four spermaceti candles, exclaiming, "It will be a job--a Tory job! I see it all, I see it all, I see it all!" And a job it proved, and a very pretty job, but no Tory job.
Bartholinus describes a large tooth for many years exhibited as the canine of a giant which proved to be nothing but a tooth of a spermaceti whale (Cetus dentatus), quite a common fish.
Quotes with SPERMACETI (1)
American whale oil lit the world. It was used in the production of soap, textiles, leather, paints, and varnishes, and it lubricated the tools and machines that drove the Industrial Revolution. The baleen cut from the mouths of whales shaped the course of feminine fashion by putting the hoop in hooped skirts and giving form to stomachtighteningand chest-crushing corsets. Spermaceti, the waxy substance from the heads of sperm whales, produced the brightest- and cleanest-burnin…