Crossword-Solution: SCRIMSHAW
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Scrimshaw | v. t. | To ornament, as shells, ivory, etc., by engraving, and (usually) rubbing pigments into the incised lines. |
| Scrimshaw | n. | A shell, a whale's tooth, or the like, that is scrimshawed. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SCRIMSHAW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Moby-Dick"'s "lively sketches of whales" | 1 answer |
| Art of bone carving | 1 answer |
| Carving craft | 1 answer |
| Ivory carving | 1 answer |
| Carving medium | 4 answers |
| Decorate | 55 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SCRIMSHAW (5)
XLVI ON BRICKLAYING After a series of introspective accounts of the babyhood, childhood, adolescence and inevitably gloomy maturity of countless men and women, it is refreshing to turn to "Bricklaying in Modern Practice," by Stewart Scrimshaw.
Scrimshaw has given just enough of the romantic charm of artistic enthusiasm to make it positively fascinating.
Scrimshaw does not say what it was made for, but a conjecture would be that it was the handiwork of Yale students for tactical use in the Harvard game.
Scrimshaw, how true that is! If I were a bricklayer I would devote practically my whole morning inspecting the scaffolding on which I was to work.
Scrimshaw knows what he is about.) Of all departments of bricklaying I should think that it would be more fun to tooth than to do anything else.
Quotes with SCRIMSHAW (2)
Though Isobel could recall only a few specifics regrading the appearance of Poe's wife-a handful of vague characteristics picked up during her study with Varen, retained from the one or two glimpses she'd had for her portraits- Scrimshaw, it seemed, had forgotten nothing.
If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1984–2023).