Crossword-Solution: CUPELS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Assaying receptacles. | 1 answer |
| Small cups used in assaying. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERAET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with CUPELS (5)
Balloons, tubes, pipettes, pneumatic vats, receivers, cupels, lamps, bell-glasses, blow-pipes, and mortars, he passed in review to assure himself that during his absence nothing had been damaged.
How many of all these ancient folios round me are like so many old cupels! The gold has passed out of them long ago, but their pores are full of the dross with which it was mingled.
The whole of the rather large room was full of glass bottles with long necks twined round glass tubes of a duck-beak shape, retorts, resembling chubby cheeks out of which came noses like trumpets, crucibles, cupels, matrasses, cucurbits and vases of all forms.
Farmer, Collier's, Jeremy, "Short View," Congers, Connoisseur, The, Cony, Nathaniel, "Country Mouse and the City Mouse," Covent Garden, coffee-houses of, Covent Garden, taverns of, Coverley, Sir Roger de, Cowley, Abraham, Cowper, William, Craven Head Inn, Crown and Anchor, Cromwell, Oliver, Cruikshank, George, Cumberland, Duke of, Cumberland, Richard, Cupels Gardens, Curran, Jolin Philpot, Cuthbert, Captain, Dagger tavern, "Dark Walks" of Vauxhall.
How many of all these old folios round me are like so many old cupels! The gold has passed out of them long ago, but their pores are full of the dross with which it was mingled.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1963–1966).