Crossword-Solution: MEERSCHAUM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Meerschaum | n. | A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite. |
| Meerschaum | n. | A tobacco pipe made of this mineral. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “MEERSCHAUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| sepiolite | 1 answer |
| hydrated magnesium silicate occurring as a soft white or yellowish claylike mineral, aka sepiolite | 1 answer |
| White clay used to make pipes | 1 answer |
| Pipe clay | 1 answer |
| A tobacco pipe with white clay bowl | 1 answer |
| Pipe bowl material | 2 answers |
| MOROCCAN building stone | 2 answers |
| Sea foam | 3 answers |
| sea-foam | 3 answers |
| tobacco-pipe | 7 answers |
| Tobacco pipe | 8 answers |
| Pipe material | 10 answers |
| CLAY pipe | 11 answers |
| A WHITE CLAYEY MINERAL | 11 answers |
| Building stone | 13 answers |
| Pipe. | 40 answers |
| Mineral ___ | 41 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
MZEACE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with MEERSCHAUM (5)
Now don't argue about it, but do it, for you will ruin the effect otherwise." The large man drew out a red case, and extracted a great yellow meerschaum, out of which, a moment later, he was puffing thick wreaths of smoke.
Now, how did she do that without filling him with fright and confusion, lest she might think him not sufficiently grateful for her present? But they tell me she did it, and that old Doby is rapturously happy and takes the meerschaum to bed with him, but only smokes it on Sundays--sitting at his window blowing great clouds when his neighbours are coming from church.
The very pipe, in which burned the spell of all this wonderwork, ceased to appear as a smoke-blackened earthen stump, and became a meerschaum, with painted bowl and amber mouthpiece.
Books and papers everywhere, a broken meerschaum, and an old flute over the mantlepiece as if done with, a ragged bird without any tail chirped on one window seat, and a box of white mice adorned the other.
Armed with which, I had a swim in the Main, and then bread and cheese and Bavarian beer in a sort of café, or at least the German substitute for a café; but what a falling off after the heavenly forenoons in Brussels! I have bought a meerschaum out of local sentiment, and am now very low and nervous about the bargain, having paid dearer than I should in England, and got a worse article, if I can form a judgment.
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Appears in: Universal.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2002–2007).