Crossword-Solution: NOSTRUM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nostrum | n. | A medicine, the ingredients of which are kept secret for the purpose of restricting the profits of sale to the inventor or proprietor; a quack medicine. |
| Nostrum | n. | Any scheme or device proposed by a quack. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NOSTRUM | anagram | URMSTON |
We have 31 clues for the answer “NOSTRUM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Medicine show elixir | 1 answer |
| Spurious remedy | 1 answer |
| Snake oil, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Questionable remedy | 1 answer |
| Quack's prescription | 1 answer |
| Quack's elixir | 1 answer |
| Quack medicine/remedy | 1 answer |
| Quack dosage | 1 answer |
| Purported remedy | 1 answer |
| Pseudomedicinal remedy | 1 answer |
| Patent remedy | 1 answer |
| Patent medicine, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Old-time remedy | 1 answer |
| Medicine that is prepared by an unqualified person and is not effective | 1 answer |
| Magic elixir. | 1 answer |
| Hypothetical remedy for all ills | 1 answer |
| Favorite remedy. | 1 answer |
| Cure-all? No | 1 answer |
| A quack medicine | 1 answer |
| Snake oil | 2 answers |
| Quack creation | 2 answers |
| QUACK remedy | 4 answers |
| quack medicine | 5 answers |
| Patent medicine | 5 answers |
| Cure-all | 6 answers |
| Panacea | 9 answers |
| A QUACK REMEDY | 10 answers |
| ARCANUM | 15 answers |
| Elixir | 32 answers |
| Remedy | 43 answers |
| Scheme | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with NOSTRUM (5)
His first thought when he had made Professor Maxon comfortable upon the couch was to fetch his pet nostrum, for there burned strong within his yellow breast the same powerful yearning to experiment that marks the greatest of the profession to whose mysteries he aspired.
Yes, I said; and what a delightful life they lead! they are always doctoring and increasing and complicating their disorders, and always fancying that they will be cured by any nostrum which anybody advises them to try.
Hugo: It hisses and glows like liquid flame; Say, what quack nostrum is this thou'st brewed? Speak out; I am learned in the chemist's lore.
Incipit Liber Sextus _Est gula, que nostrum maculavit prima parentem Ex vetito pomo, quo dolet omnis homo Hec agit, ut corpus anime contraria spirat, Quo caro fit crassa, spiritus atque macer.
The doctor here will bear me out that on one occasion I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood--relying, of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, ‘For the blood is the life.’ Though, indeed, the vendor of a certain nostrum has vulgarised the truism to the very point of contempt.
Quotes with NOSTRUM (2)
From the end of the World War twenty-one years ago, this country, like many others, went through a phase of having large groups of people carried away by some emotion--some alluring, attractive, even speciously inspiring, public presentation of a nostrum, a cure-all. Many Americans lost their heads because several plausible fellows lost theirs in expounding schemes to end barbarity, to give weekly handouts to people, to give everybody a better job--or, more modestly, for exam…
The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1950–2020).