Crossword-Solution: SICCA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sicca | n. | A seal; a coining die; -- used adjectively to designate the silver currency of the Mogul emperors, or the Indian rupee of 192 grains. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “SICCA”
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| New rupee. | 1 answer |
| Newly coined rupee. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SICCA (5)
Carey himself, had he been living." At a time when the old Sicca Rupee was worth half a crown, Carey received, in the thirty-four and a half years of his residence at Serampore, from the date of his appointment to the College of Fort William, £45,000.[35] Of this he spent £7500 on his Botanic Garden in that period.
Petronius had armed himself with a short Roman knife called sicca, which he took always during night trips.
Having taken these precautions, he retired into the deserts of the interior; where he soon after learned that Marius, with a few cohorts, had been dispatched from the line of march to bring provisions from Sicca[177], a town which had been the first to revolt from him after his defeat.
Dein sequuntur Cullu, Ruscicade, Bulla regia, Tacatua, Hippo regius, Sicca, Tabrachć: Hanc quoque regionem debellatam in provincić formam redegerunt Romani.
Forty years after Cyprian's death the rhetorician Arnobius of Sicca in Numidia renewed the attack on paganism, rather than the defence or exposition of Christianity, in the seven books _Adversus Nationes_, which he is said to have written as a proof of the sincerity of his conversion.
Quotes with SICCA (1)
In the old days, farmers would keep a little of their home-made opium for their families, to be used during illnesses, or at harvests and weddings; the rest they would sell to the local nobility, or to pykari merchants from Patna. Back then, a few clumps of poppy were enough to provide for a household's needs, leaving a little over, to be sold: no one was inclined to plant more because of all the work it took to grow poppies - fifteen ploughings of the land and every remainin…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1950–1966).