Crossword-Solution: STYPTIC
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Styptic | a. | Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. |
| Styptic | n. | A styptic medicine. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “STYPTIC”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Bleeding stopper | 1 answer |
| tending to check bleeding by contracting the tissues or blood vessels | 1 answer |
| Pencil that limits bleeding | 1 answer |
| Pencil that halts bleeding | 1 answer |
| Pencil for shavers, but not little ones | 1 answer |
| Pencil for shavers | 1 answer |
| Kind of pencil that halts bleeding | 1 answer |
| Kind of first-aid pencil | 1 answer |
| It stops the bleeding | 1 answer |
| Astrigent | 1 answer |
| -- pencil (bleeding stopper) | 1 answer |
| Able to make bleeding stop | 3 answers |
| bleeding from the nose | 11 answers |
| BLEEDING heart | 12 answers |
| Alum | 14 answers |
| Astringent | 20 answers |
| MEDICINAL herb, classification of | 38 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
MACEZE
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with STYPTIC (5)
Heated sand is applied as a styptic and the patient is dieted with ginger-soup and warm drinks of ginger-water, pork being especially forbidden.
Hold the cork, _you,_ till I want it.” She took out of her pocket some adhesive plaster, and flakes of some strong styptic, and a piece of elastic.
Then in a moment she passed the elastic under the sufferer's head, drew it over with the styptic between her finger and thumb, and crack! the styptic was tight on the compressed wound.
She forced in more styptic, increasing the pressure, then she whipped out a sort of surgical housewife, and with some cutting instrument reduced the cork, then cut it convex, and fastened it on the styptic by another elastic.
She moaned, though he bade her be silent; she wept, in spite of words which had hitherto been an effectual styptic to her tears; and she met the commonplaces of his common sense with such wild, miserable laughter, that he shuddered as he heard her.
Quotes with STYPTIC (2)
When a man is happy enough to win the affections of a sweet girl, who can soothe his cares with crochet, and respond to all his most cherished ideas with beaded urn-rugs and chair-covers in German wool, he has, at least, a guarantee of domestic comfort, whatever trials may await him out of doors. What a resource it is under fatigue and irritation to have your drawing-room well supplied with small mats, which would always be ready if you ever wanted to set anything on them ! A…
For the hundredth time, he examined his face in the bathroom mirror, patiently touched every scratch with the styptic pencil, and repowdered them. He ministered to his face and hands objectively, as if they were not a part of himself. When his eyes met the staring eyes in the mirror, they slipped away as they must have slipped away, Guy thought, that first afternoon on the train, when he had tried to avoid Bruno’s eyes.
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1990–2017).