Crossword-Solution: ORPIN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Orpin | n. | A yellow pigment of various degrees of intensity, approaching also to red. |
| Orpin | n. | The orpine. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ORPIN | anagram | PORIN, PRION, RIPON |
We have 6 clues for the answer “ORPIN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One of the stonecrops | 1 answer |
| Stonecrop plant | 1 answer |
| Fleshy leafed plant | 2 answers |
| Purple perennial | 3 answers |
| Stonecrop. | 3 answers |
| yellow pigment | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETRA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ORPIN (5)
Liveforever (orpine, orpin, livelong, Sedum telephium) Perennial northern temperate plant with toothed leaves and heads of small purplish-white flowers.
The designation Orpine has become perversely applied to this plant which bears pink blossoms, the word having been derived from _Orpin_, gold pigment, a yellow sulphuret of the metal arsenic, and it should appertain exclusively to yellow flowers.
That sedate, and literally as well as figuratively, long-headed Scot, had felt a growing distaste to the flippant young Englishers, as he styled them, but when he saw them throw off their light character, as one might throw off a garment, and rise eagerly and sadly to question Orpin about the dying man, he felt, as mankind is often forced to feel, that a first, and especially a hasty, judgment is often incorrect.
Stephen Orpin was a mechanic and a Wesleyan, in virtue of which latter connection, and a Christian spirit, he had been made a local preacher.
While Black and his friend Jerry were observing Orpin, as he conversed with the brothers Skyd, the tall burly Englishman from whose shoulders the former had been hurled into the sea, chanced to pass, and quietly grasped the Scot by the arm.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1990).