Crossword-Solution: PUMICE
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| Pumice | n. | A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone. |
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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.
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Sentences with PUMICE (5)
But the base of the high partitions was stony ground, with volcanic locks and enormous pumice-stones lying in picturesque heaps.
The following will be found practical: Procure a well planished copper plate of the required size, and well polish it, first with pumice stone and water, then with snake stone, jewelers’ rouge.
The night was cold, and the wind coming down upon us in stormy surges drove gritty ashes and fragments of pumice about our ears while chilling to the bone.
The solid piles which contained the cupola were composed of huge blocks of freestone, hewn into squares and triangles, fortified by circles of iron, and firmly cemented by the infusion of lead and quicklime: but the weight of the cupola was diminished by the levity of its substance, which consists either of pumice-stone that floats in the water, or of bricks from the Isle of Rhodes, five times less ponderous than the ordinary sort.
The earth trembled; ashes and sulphur showered down; a rain of fine pumice-stone fell like snow on all the dry land.
Quotes with PUMICE (1)
This was once Mazama, I kept reminding myself. This was once a mountain that stood nearly 12,000 feet tall and then had its heart removed. This was once a wasteland of lava and pumice and ash. This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and the silence of that water: what a mountai…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).