Crossword-Solution: SUINT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Suint | n. | A peculiar substance obtained from the wool of sheep, consisting largely of potash mixed with fatty and earthy matters. It is used as a source of potash and also for the manufacture of gas. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SUINT | anagram | NUITS, SINTU, TUNIS, UNITS |
We have 8 clues for the answer “SUINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Deposit in sheep's wool. | 1 answer |
| Natural grease in sheep's wool. | 1 answer |
| Sheep grease | 1 answer |
| fatty substance sheep | 1 answer |
| substance sheep fatty | 1 answer |
| water-soluble substance found in the fleece of sheep | 1 answer |
| Potash source | 2 answers |
| WOOL grease | 4 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 SUINT (5)
RAMSAY.--How to save and utilize soap used in wool scouring.--To recover the indigo from the refuse.--Extraction of potash from _suint_.--Use of bisulphide of carbon.
This, again, is not wholly a new process, for various attempts have been made to dissolve out the yolk, or _suint_, or greasy matter from unwashed wool, as it comes from the back of the sheep.
Pure wool 31.23 Soluble _suint_ 32.74 Insoluble 8.57 Earthy matter 27.46 ------ 100.00 It is easily seen that _suint_ forms a very important constituent of raw wool.
Maumene and Rogelet patented the use of the water in which wool has been washed as a source of potash, and at present the extraction of potash from _suint_ is practiced in France on a large scale.
Yet it was all wasted! And this estimate does not include the fats of the _suint_, which are worth an even greater sum.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1961–2003).