Crossword-Solution: SHAGREEN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shagreen | v. t. | To chagrin. |
| Shagreen | n. | A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. |
| Shagreen | n. | The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. |
| Shagreen | a. | Alt. of Shagreened |
We have 9 clues for the answer “SHAGREEN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ABRASIVE made from animal or fish skins | 1 answer |
| Kind of untanned leather. | 1 answer |
| PATTERNED material made from animal or fish skins | 1 answer |
| ROUGH-patterned material made from animal or fish skins | 1 answer |
| Rawhide with a rough surface. | 1 answer |
| SWORD scabbard material | 2 answers |
| sharkskin | 5 answers |
| Green (prefix) | 9 answers |
| Abrasive | 51 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
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SHAGREEN (5)
You will dredge, too, the twelve-rayed sun-star (Solaster papposa), with his rich scarlet armour; and more strange, and quite as beautiful, the bird’s foot star (Palmipes membranaceus), which you may see crawling by its thousand sucking-feet in the Crystal Palace tanks, a pentagonal webbed bird’s foot, of scarlet and orange shagreen.
She searched the pockets, found a shagreen case, Replaced the fly, noticed a golden stamp Filling the middle space.
Besides, I have here--I bring the proof.” With his strong hairy hands, trembling with emotion, he hunted among the papers in an enormous shagreen portfolio which he had under his arm.
Merciful powers! I remember, over the old shagreen knife and spoon case on the sideboard in my gr-nny's parlor, a print by Stubbs of that very horse.
This man, dressed in a citizen costume buttoned up like a military pourpoint, a very small hat on his head, but a long shagreen-mounted sword by his side, turned his head as soon as he heard the steps of the horses, and left off looking at the house to look at the dragoons.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1953–1965).