Crossword-Solution: NOSTRUMS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Nostrums | pl. | of Nostrum |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| NOSTRUMS | anagram | STRUMSON, SUNSTORM |
We have 9 clues for the answer “NOSTRUMS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Patent medicines. | 1 answer |
| Quack medicines | 1 answer |
| Quacks sell them. | 1 answer |
| Questionable patent medicines | 1 answer |
| Questionable remedies | 1 answer |
| Quack remedies. | 2 answers |
| Cure-alls | 3 answers |
| Remedies | 10 answers |
| BEING OF QUESTIONABLE AUTHENTICITY | 11 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
AEZECM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with NOSTRUMS (5)
But they are to be pitied or laughed at, not to be quarrelled with; they mean well with their nostrums, if they could only learn that they are cutting off a Hydra's head.
Inside, the customary shelves of labelled jars, glass cases holding cigars, nostrums and toilet knick-knacks, and in one corner an ancient revolving bookcase deposited long ago by the Tabard Inn Library.
Their creeds were their schemes, their religions their nostrums, their philosophies their devices, by which they half-believed they would outwit the Noseless One and the Night.
Shelves of soap-cartons, teething-rings, garden-seeds, and patent medicines in yellow “packages-nostrums” for consumption, for “women's diseases”--notorious mixtures of opium and alcohol, in the very shop to which her husband sent patients for the filling of prescriptions.
The jerks in capitals were, “DO NOT NEED DRUGS OR MEDICINE,” and “SIMPLY A PROPER REGIMEN TO GET YOU IN TONE.” One was warned against the chemist or druggist who pushed “much-advertised nostrums” on one’s attention.
Quotes with NOSTRUMS (3)
Do you know that when one who has influence with youth- be he teacher, leader or parent- seriously weakens the foundations upon which a young person has built, by faith-destroying challenges the youngster is not yet equipped to meet, he fashions a disciple who has been effectively cut loose from fundamentals at a time when he needs most to rely on them? The challenger may himself be a moral, educated, well-meaning person of integrity, doing what he does in the name of honesty…
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…
All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1953–2011).