Crossword-Solution: OSSUARY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ossuary | n. | A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnel house. |
We have 23 clues for the answer “OSSUARY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| One has skeletons | 1 answer |
| TOMB for bones of the dead | 1 answer |
| Skeleton depository | 1 answer |
| Receptacle for the bones of the dead | 1 answer |
| Place for bones | 1 answer |
| Burial urn | 1 answer |
| Bone depository | 1 answer |
| Bone crypt | 1 answer |
| BONE receptacle | 2 answers |
| ossuarium | 2 answers |
| Burial receptacle | 2 answers |
| CAVE containing ancient bones | 2 answers |
| charnel-house | 3 answers |
| catacomb | 8 answers |
| DIES MACBETH BURIAL PLACE | 10 answers |
| Urn | 11 answers |
| A PLACE FOR THE BURIAL OF A CORPSE | 11 answers |
| burial | 22 answers |
| BURIAL place | 25 answers |
| Cave | 36 answers |
| Receptacle | 36 answers |
| tomb | 47 answers |
| Grave | 60 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OSSUARY (5)
Nordmann took from a cave near Odessa 4,500 bones of ursidæ, associated with no less numerous relics of the large cave-lion and cave-hyena.17 The Külock Cave, now some six hundred and fifty feet above the river, contained the remains of no less than 2,500 bears, and similar relics occur by thousands in the osseous breccia of Santenay and in the cave of Lherm, where they form a regular ossuary.
There were five entrances to the cave of Garenne de Verneuil (Marne) in which was a regular ossuary; the floor was paved and the roof kept up with eleven upright stones.
Bonaparte stopped near the Ossuary, and desired to be shown the spot where the battle of Morat was fought.
And in truth these Bad Lands are an immense ossuary where lie bleaching in the sun myriads of fragments of pachyderms, chelonians, and even, some would have us believe, fossil men, overwhelmed by unknown cataclysms ages and ages ago.
After a time the body is taken up, the bones cleaned, and deposited in an ossuary called the Quiogozon." Dr Fordyce Grinnell, physician to the Wichita Agency, Indian Territory, furnishes the following description of the burial ceremonies of the Wichita Indians, who call themselves.
Quotes with OSSUARY (2)
The interlocking network of stalks and branches and creepers was skeletal, the fossil yard of an extinct species of fineboned insectoid creatures. all of these bones, then, seemed to have been stained by sun and earth from an original living white to brown, and not the tough fibrous flower and seed-spilling green they actually once had been. Howard wondered about a man who had never seen summer, a winter man, examining the weeds and making this inference -- that he was lookin…
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Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (2001–2019).