Crossword-Solution: PELLIS
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Dermatological complaint
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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
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eruption
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Sentences with PELLIS (5)
Quid cum Siculi virgo Pelori, rabidos utero succincta canes, omnes pariter solvit hiatus? 45 Quis non totos horruit artus totiens uno latrante malo? Quid cum Ausonium dirae pestes voce canora mare mulcerent, cum Pieria resonans cithara 50 Thracius Orpheus solitam cantu retinere rates paene coegit Sirena sequi? Quod fuit huius pretium cursus? Aurea pellis maiusque mari Medea malum, 55 merces prima digna carina.
The next moment he went to view his horse, whose bones stuck out like the corners of a Spanish real, being a worse jade than Gonela's, _qui tantum pellis etossa fuit_; however, his master thought that neither Alexander's Bucephalus nor the Cid's Babieca could be compared with him.
Ergo tu luges nimium citatam Circulo vitam properante volvi? Tu Deos parcos gemis, ipse cum sis Prodigus aevi? Ipse quod perdis, quereris perire? Ipse tu pellis, sed et ire ploras? Vita num servit tibi? servus ipse Cedet abactus.
Thus, if bismuth be melted in a crucible, and when cooling, and just as the pellicle (from _pellis_, a skin or crust) is forming on the surface, if two small holes are instantly made by a rod of iron and the liquid metal poured out from the inside (one of the holes being the entrance for the air, the other the exit for the metal); on carefully breaking the crucible, the bismuth is found to be crystallized in the most lovely cubes.
When they went out, they threw a light blanket round their shoulders, the upper part made tight with skewers, and the lower gathered up into folds, which they secured under the girdle, from which the sword, dagger, purse, &c., were suspended; this they called _feile_, a word of the same origin with the Scotish _fell_, English, _peel_; Old English, _pilche_; German and Northern, _peltz_, _pels_, &c.; and the Latin, _pellis_, all which signified an _external surface_, _skin_, or _covering_ of any kind.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1970).