Crossword-Solution: LAMPBLACK
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lampblack | n. | The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “LAMPBLACK”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Powdery form of carbon | 1 answer |
| Some soot | 1 answer |
| fine black soot used as a pigment in paint and ink | 1 answer |
| Product from soot | 2 answers |
| Soot used as a pigment | 2 answers |
| Sooty stuff | 2 answers |
| Paint ingredient | 10 answers |
| albatross, sooty | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LAMPBLACK (5)
Black Stain for Apparatus.—Dissolve gum shellac in alcohol, or procure shellac varnish at the druggists’, stir in lampblack, and apply with a sponge or bit of rag.
Sealing Wax for Bottles.—Melt together six parts rosin and one beeswax, and add a small quantity of lampblack; or, if red is preferable, add red lead.
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.
And there were "Italian Flower-Sellers," damsels with careful hair, two figures together, one blonde, the other as brunette as lampblack, the blonde--in pink satin and blue slippers--leaning against a pillar and smiling over the golden coins for which she had exchanged her posies; the brunette seated at her feet, weeping upon an unsold bouquet.
Not only were the ordinary strip paper carbons tried again, but tissue-paper coated with tar and lampblack was rolled into thin sticks, like knitting-needles, carbonized and raised to incandescence in vacuo.
Quotes with LAMPBLACK (1)
She will at least be decently clothed as she waits. Tomorrow I shall find her a brush and powder and whatever else a woman of her dignity requires.” Fin rolled her eyes. “Is ‘dignity’ what you call it?” Jeannot offered her his hand. Fin took it and pulled herself up from the deck. She was barefoot and her pants and shirt were stained with everything from blood to oakum to lampblack. She stretched her shirt out between her hands and considered its mottle of stains. “I’m not di…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1980–2016).