Crossword-Solution: LEAKINESS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Leakiness | n. | The quality of being leaky. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LEAKINESS | anagram | ALIKENESS |
We have 3 clues for the answer “LEAKINESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Sieve quality | 1 answer |
| Sievelike quality | 1 answer |
| Tendency towards verbal slips | 1 answer |
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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
EAZMEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LEAKINESS (5)
The story of her several sailings, her "leakiness," her final return, and her abandonment as unseaworthy, is familiar.
Master Robert Cushman chosen "Assistant." The ship ready for sea this day, but obliged to lie here on account of leakiness of consort, which is forced to retrim.
For what can tears avail, and piteous sighs? Death heeds not howls nor dripping eyes; And what are sighs and tears but wind and water, That show the leakiness of feeble nature? Tom, with my simile thou wilt not quarrel; Like air and any sort of drink, Whizzing and oozing through each chink, That proves the weakness of the barrel.
Writing of the leaks experienced on the run down to the Cape, Flinders said:-- "The leakiness of the ship increased with the continuance of the southwest winds, and at the end of a week amounted to five inches of water an hour.
Cook's opinion, would not have been so safe a passage, as that to the south of Java, through the strait of Sunda, Another reason for his making the best of his way to Batavia, was the leakiness of the vessel, which rendered it doubtful, whether it would not be necessary to heave her down when she arrived at that port.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1989–2013).