Crossword-Solution: URARI
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Urari | n. | See Curare. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “URARI”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Arrowtip poison: Var. | 1 answer |
| Arrow poison: Var. | 4 answers |
| Arrow Poison | 17 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
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with URARI (4)
Raleigh, about the end of the sixteenth century, had heard of urari* as being a vegetable substance with which arrows were envenomed (* In Tamanac marana, in Maypure macuri.); yet no fixed notions of this poison had reached Europe.
Particularly notable is his description of the wonderful wourahli (urari) poison, its extraordinary effect, and the _modus operandi_ of its making; a poison used extensively by Amazonian tribes but not made by all.
The vegeto-alkaline base of curara, urari, woorara, woorali, or wourali, the arrow-poison of Central America.
Thus the Bushman mixes serpent’s poison with the euphorbia juice, and the South American native poison-maker, prepared by a long fast for the mysterious act, concocts the paralysing _urari_ or _curare_ in the secret depths of the forest, where no woman’s eye may fall on the fearful process.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1961–1977).