Crossword-Solution: RUSMA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rusma | n. | A depilatory made of orpiment and quicklime, and used by the Turks. See Rhusma. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| RUSMA | anagram | AMURS, ARUMS, MARUS, MASUR, MURAS, RAMUS, SARUM, SURMA |
We have 1 clue for the answer “RUSMA”
| Clue | Answers |
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| DEPILATORY | 1 answer |
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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
CAEMZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with RUSMA (5)
Painting the Face universal among the Women of Egypt--Kohhl, the Smoke of Gum Labdanum, used by the Girls of Greece to color the Lashes and Sockets of the Eye--Turkish Hair Dye--Rastikopetra Dye--Litharge Dye--Silver Dye--Hair Dyes, with Mordant--Inodorous Dye--Brown and Black Hair Dye--Liquid Lead Dye--Depilatory, Rusma SECTION XIV.
This or analogous preparations were introduced into this country from the East, rusma having been in use in the harems of Asia for many ages.
Etym: [See Rusma.] Defn: A mixtire of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, -- used in the depilation of hides.
From very early times to the present day, arsenic sulphide ("rusma") mixed with lime has been used in unhairing skins for glove-leather and similar purposes.
The following description of it, by a great modern authority, who appears to have been well acquainted with it, deserves not to be overlooked: “Rusma _or_ Sory.