Crossword-Solution: DRAUGHTS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Draughts | n. pl. | A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c). |
| Draughts | n. pl. | A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “DRAUGHTS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Board game with huffing | 1 answer |
| CHECKERS game | 1 answer |
| Checkers across the Atlantic | 1 answer |
| Checkers, in Britain. | 1 answer |
| Checkers, in Chelsea | 1 answer |
| Checkers, in Cheshire | 1 answer |
| Londoner's game of checkers | 1 answer |
| The game of checkers. | 1 answer |
| game for two players using a draughtboard and 12 draughtsmen each | 1 answer |
| Traditional board game | 3 answers |
| Checkers. | 13 answers |
| ENGLISH game | 15 answers |
| board game | 46 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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eruption
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Sentences with DRAUGHTS (5)
They transgressed without fear or scruple, the rules of behaviour that were binding on all others: smoking tobacco under the beadle’s very nose, although each whiff would have cost a townsman a shilling; and quaffing at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket flasks, which they freely tendered to the gaping crowd around them.
The wind, which only broke in puffs and draughts into that deep well of building, tossed the light of the candle to and fro about their steps, until they came into the shelter of the theatre, where they sat down silently to wait.
What took the honest knight from home? or what could he expect but to find his mistress agreeably engaged with a rival on his return, and his serenade, as they call it, as little regarded as the caterwauling of a cat in the gutter? Nevertheless, Sir Knight, I drink this cup to thee, to the success of all true lovers—I fear you are none,” he added, on observing that the knight (whose brain began to be heated with these repeated draughts) qualified his flagon from the water pitcher.
All that day he urged his reluctant companions on through the fearful heat of the tropics until, almost exhausted, they halted at dusk upon the bank of a river, where they filled their stomachs with cooling draughts, and after eating lay down to sleep.
But is the just man or the skilful player a more useful and better partner at a game of draughts? The skilful player.
Quotes with DRAUGHTS (3)
I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food… of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns… He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods… endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavor with flavor from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of brandy.
Hold out your hands to feel the luxury of sunbeams. Press the soft blossoms against your cheek, and finger their graces of form, their delicate mutability of shape, their pliancy and freshness. Expose your face to the aerial floods that sweep the heavens, ‘inhale great draughts of space,’ wonder, wonder at the wind’s unwearied activity. Pile note on note the infinite music that flows increasingly to your soul from the tactual sonorities of a thousand branches and tumbling wat…
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Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1947–2006).