Crossword-Solution: SARSAR 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

With cold water (as every child is now-a-days aware) you may lash a fluid into angry ebullitions of heat; with hot water, as with the rod of Amram's son, you may freeze a fluid down to the temperature of the Sarsar wind, provided only that you regulate the pressure of the air.

And so it was, that God, to punish his pride, first sent a drought of three years’ duration, and then the Sarsar, or icy wind, for seven days, in which the garden was destroyed, the palace ruined, and Shedad, with all his subjects, died.

Frost, gathering frost, some Sarsar wind of death, seemed to repel me; I slept--for how long I cannot say; slowly I recovered my self-possession, and found myself standing as before, close to my sister's bed.

The three chief of them carried off the waters of the Euphrates to the Tigris above Babylon,--the Zabzallat canal (or _Nahr Sarsar_) running from Faluja to Ctesiphon, the Kutha canal from Sippara to Madain, passing Tell Ibrahim or Kutha on the way, and the King's canal or Ar-Malcha between the other two.

Frost, gathering frost, some Sarsar wind of death, seemed to repel me; I slept--for how long I cannot say; slowly I recovered my self-possession, and found myself standing, as before, close to my sister's bed.