Crossword-Solution: QUASSIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Quassia | n. | The wood of several tropical American trees of the order Simarubeae, as Quassia amara, Picraena excelsa, and Simaruba amara. It is intensely bitter, and is used in medicine and sometimes as a substitute for hops in making beer. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “QUASSIA”
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| AMERICAN medicinal tree | 1 answer |
| Bitterwood. | 1 answer |
| CARIBBEAN tree | 1 answer |
| SOUTH American medicinal tree | 1 answer |
| Tropical American tree. | 14 answers |
| South American tree | 21 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
ZAMECE
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eruption
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Sentences with QUASSIA (5)
Quassia, the brewer); put down fairs and fiddlers; committed many poachers; shot a few; convicted one-third of the peasantry; suspected the rest; and passed nearly the whole of them through a wholesome course of prison discipline, which has finished their education at the expense of the county.
There were two other animals in his stable: Quassia or Quashy, the black horse, and Caustic, the old bay, with whom he jogged round the village.
Alec saw the injured look she put on, but took no notice, and presently banished it by saying pleasantly, “I've got a capital little cup among my traps, and I'll give it to you to drink your milk in, as it is made of wood that is supposed to improve whatever is put into it something like a quassia cup.
After this they brought me into their cellars, and made me taste of divers kinds of drinks, both wine and beer, mead and quassia, of sundry colours and kinds.
STOUGHTON BITTERS Take of gentian 4 oz., orange peel 4 oz., columbo 4 oz., chamomile flowers 4 oz., quassia 4 oz., burned sugar 1 lb., whiskey 2-1/2 galls., water 2-1/2 galls,; mix and let stand one week, then bottle the clear liquor.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1965).