Crossword-Solution: ELEPHANTINE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Elephantine | a. | Pertaining to the elephant, or resembling an elephant (commonly, in size); hence, huge; immense; heavy; as, of elephantine proportions; an elephantine step or tread. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “ELEPHANTINE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of great mass | 1 answer |
| Island of the Nilometer | 1 answer |
| Like Dumbo. | 1 answer |
| mastodonic | 2 answers |
| BEHEMOTHIC | 4 answers |
| Outsized. | 4 answers |
| NILE River island | 7 answers |
| Oversize | 12 answers |
| Leviathan | 17 answers |
| Jumbo | 28 answers |
| Gargantuan | 35 answers |
| Plump | 48 answers |
| Colossal | 50 answers |
| fleshy | 57 answers |
| Mammoth | 60 answers |
| Gigantic | 67 answers |
| Immense | 67 answers |
| Massive | 69 answers |
| Enormous | 70 answers |
| Ample | 70 answers |
| Large | 72 answers |
| Full | 75 answers |
| Huge | 77 answers |
| Heavy | 90 answers |
| BIG ___! | 98 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 ELEPHANTINE (5)
Ada Lovelace (the daughter of Lord Byron who became the world's first programmer while cooperating with Charles Babbage on the design of his mechanical computing engines in the mid-1800s) would almost certainly blanch at the use to which her name has latterly been put; the kindest thing that has been said about it is that there is probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, {elephantine} bulk.
The chance guess that they were bound upon an orluk hunt proved correct, and Talu had said that the chances were ten to one that such would be the mission of any party leaving Kadabra by the pass through which we entered the valley, since that way leads directly to the vast plains frequented by this elephantine beast of prey.
But that was when she’d only herself to provide for.” Peeping through the same crevice of the curtain where, only a little while before, the urchin of elephantine appetite had peeped, the butcher beheld the inner door, not closed, as the child had seen it, but ajar, and almost wide open.
Often he took it out and held it in the palm of his immense, horny hand, seized with some strange elephantine sentiment, wagging his head at it, heaving tremendous sighs.
Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon—all, for the moment, in juxtaposition.
Quotes with ELEPHANTINE (3)
Reason and justice grip the remotest and the loneliest star. Look at those stars. Don’t they look as if they were single diamonds and sapphires? Well, you can imagine any mad botany or geology you please. Think of forests of adamant with leaves of brilliants. Think the moon is a blue moon, a single elephantine sapphire. But don’t fancy that all that frantic astronomy would make the smallest difference to the reason and justice of conduct. On plains of opal, under cliffs cut o…
But you don't hold yourself superior to all the judges of music?" she protested." No, no, not for a moment. I merely maintain my right as an individual. I have just been telling you what I think, in order to explain why the elephantine gambols of Madame Tetralani spoil the orchestra for me. The world's judges of music may all be right. But I am I, and I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind. If I don't like a thing, I don't like it, that's all; and t…
LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the streets as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill. Smoke lowering down from chimney-pots, making a soft black drizzle, with flakes of soot in it as big as full-grown snow-flakes — gone i…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1954–1968).