Crossword-Solution: SELENITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Selenite | n. | A salt of selenious acid. |
| Selenite | n. | A variety of gypsum, occuring in transparent crystals or crystalline masses. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SELENITE | anagram | ENLISTEE |
We have 13 clues for the answer “SELENITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Crystalline gypsum variety | 1 answer |
| Crystalline gypsum. | 1 answer |
| Type of gypsum | 1 answer |
| colourless glassy variety of gypsum | 1 answer |
| inhabitant moon | 1 answer |
| inhabitant of moon | 1 answer |
| moon inhabitant | 1 answer |
| variety Gypsum painting surface | 1 answer |
| Gypsum variety | 2 answers |
| Variety of gypsum | 2 answers |
| Moon dweller. | 2 answers |
| inhabitant of the moon | 3 answers |
| Gypsum. | 8 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
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with SELENITE (5)
The clock consisted of a spy-glass, having a nichol or double-image prism for an eye-piece, and a thin plate of selenite for an object-glass.
Beautiful stalactites of selenite, resembling in form those of carbonate of lime, are formed near these beds.
This earthy selenite is now found at a height of between six hundred and seven hundred feet.) It is singular, that many of these pebbles have their entire surfaces coated, without any point of contact having been left uncovered; hence, these pebbles must have been lifted up by the slow deposition between them of the successive films of carbonate of lime.
The inhabitants call the crystals of selenite, the padre del sal, and those of the sulphate of soda, the madre del sal; they assured me that both are found under the same circumstances in several of the neighbouring salinas; and that the sulphate of soda is annually dissolved, and is always crystallised before the common salt on the muddy bottom.
Above this fossiliferous mass, there is a stratum of very fine-grained, pale brown mudstone, including numerous laminae of selenite.
Quotes with SELENITE (1)
He discovered wonderful stories, also, about jewels. In Alphonso's Clericalis Disciplina a serpent was mentioned with eyes of real jacinth, and in the romantic history of Alexander, the Conqueror of Emathia was said to have found in the vale of Jordan snakes 'with collars of real emeralds growing on their backs.' There was a gem in the brain of the dragon, Philostratus told us, and 'by the exhibition of golden letters and a scarlet robe' the monster could be thrown into a mag…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1958–2013).