Crossword-Solution: CRUCIBLE
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| Crucible | n. | A vessel or melting pot, composed of some very refractory substance, as clay, graphite, platinum, and used for melting and calcining substances which require a strong degree of heat, as metals, ores, etc. |
| Crucible | n. | A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal. |
| Crucible | n. | A test of the most decisive kind; a severe trial; as, the crucible of affliction. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “CRUCIBLE”
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| FURNACE bottom, hollow at | 1 answer |
| used for high temperature chemical reactions | 1 answer |
| cruset | 1 answer |
| a vessel made of material that does not melt easily | 1 answer |
| Small ceramic cup used for calcining and melting substances at high temperatures in laboratory | 1 answer |
| Miller play (with "The"). | 1 answer |
| MOLTEN metal collector of furnace | 1 answer |
| Heat-resistant container | 1 answer |
| Chem lab container | 1 answer |
| Arthur Miller play, with "The" | 1 answer |
| Arthur Miller play about the Salem witch trials, with "The" | 1 answer |
| Arthur Miller drama set in Salem, with "The" | 1 answer |
| Melting pot | 2 answers |
| Severe test | 2 answers |
| ARTHUR MILLER PLAY ABOUT | 10 answers |
| ALEMBIC | 12 answers |
| FURNACE part | 16 answers |
| Vessel | 60 answers |
| Dish | 83 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
ZEMECA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with CRUCIBLE (5)
Thus, in the crucible of shame amidst the white heat of naked truths, the passion that the man had felt for the girl he had considered his social inferior was transmuted into love.
Take a small-size crucible, properly temper it by a slow fire, that it may not be cracked after which, fill it with common lampblack, cover it over with a piece of soap-stone, and again replace it in the fire.
Pindar represents him as buried under Aetna, and Tzetzes reads Aetna in this passage.] 1627 (return) [ The epithet (which means literally _well-bored_) seems to refer to the spout of the crucible.] 1628 (return) [ The fire god.
Finally, after a thousand decompositions, recompositions, and double compositions, I found at the bottom of my analytical crucible, not the criterion of certainty, but a metaphysico-economico-political treatise, whose conclusions were such that I did not care to present them in a more artistic or, if you will, more intelligible form.
When the furnace requires feeding, the workmen take the opportunity of lifting the lid of each crucible and judging how far the process has advanced.
Quotes with CRUCIBLE (3)
My wife with the hair of a wood fire With the thoughts of heat lightning With the waist of an hourglass With the waist of an otter in the teeth of a tiger My wife with the lips of a cockade and of a bunch of stars of the last magnitude With the teeth of tracks of white mice on the white earth With the tongue of rubbed amber and glass My wife with the tongue of a stabbed host With the tongue of a doll that opens and closes its eyes With the tongue of an unbelievable stone My w…
The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defensive or naive. The humanities, done right, are the crucible in which our evolving notions of what it means to be fully human are put to the test; they teach us, incrementally, endlessly, not what to do, but how to be. Their method is confrontational, their domain unlimited, their "pr…
The perplexity, the potential — God’s own crucible was not for angels.
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1956–2018).