Crossword-Solution: HOURGLASS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Hourglass | n. | An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “HOURGLASS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Old time indicator | 1 answer |
| old tick tock that used sand | 1 answer |
| What a Gay Nineties belle resembled | 1 answer |
| Timer, of a kind | 1 answer |
| Timekeeper filled with sand | 1 answer |
| Thing featuring the sands of time | 1 answer |
| Slim-waisted | 1 answer |
| Shapely timekeeper's gauge? | 1 answer |
| Shapely one's comparison | 1 answer |
| Shape of a nice figure | 1 answer |
| Sand-filled timepiece | 1 answer |
| Sand-filled device | 1 answer |
| Sand-filled counter | 1 answer |
| SAND-filled timer | 1 answer |
| Primitive timepiece | 1 answer |
| It measures time | 1 answer |
| Early timepiece | 1 answer |
| Describing a notably slim waist | 1 answer |
| AUGUSTATION | 1 answer |
| 60-minute drink? | 1 answer |
| . . . in "The Wizard of Oz" | 1 answer |
| *Flippable timekeeper | 1 answer |
| Primitive timer | 2 answers |
| Waistline | 4 answers |
| Kind of figure | 4 answers |
| Narrowing | 5 answers |
| A TIMEPIECE THAT SHOWS THE TIME OF DAY | 10 answers |
| A TIMEPIECE THAT MEASURES A TIME INTERVAL AND SIGNALS ITS END | 11 answers |
| Old-timer | 12 answers |
| Waist | 12 answers |
| timekeeper | 13 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 HOURGLASS (5)
The latter had an hourglass on his head, and in his hand a scythe, with which he aimed a blow at Mercury's feet.
What d'ye say, lads?' But Lord! as I looks from one to another they trickles away like sand through an hourglass, and before we knows it me and George has the road to ourselves.
Gilman How many a useless stone we find Swallowed in that capacious, blind, Faith-swollen gullet, our ancestral mind! THE SANDS It runs--it runs--the hourglass turning; Dark sands glooming, bright sands burning; I turn--and turn--with heavy or hopeful hands; So must I turn as long as the Voice commands; But I lose all count of the hours for watching the sliding sands.
The lake was a large one, shaped like an hourglass, as its name implied, and Augusta Maturin sometimes paddled Janet through the wide, shallow channel to the northern end, even as she had once paddled Gifford.
Suddenly the water shot up in the form of a gigantic hourglass, and the “Albatross” was enveloped in the eddy of an enormous waterspout, while twenty others, black as ink, raged around her.
Quotes with HOURGLASS (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…
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?
And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 28 times in crossword archives (1970–2024).