Word Meanings - AZURITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Related words: (words related to AZURITE)

• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• COPPERHEAD
  A poisonous American serpent , closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
• CARBONATED
  Combined or impregnated with carbonic acid.
• COPPERPLATE
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper
• COPPERAS
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• CARBONATE
  A salt or carbonic acid, as in limestone, some forms of lead ore, etc.
• COPPERY
  Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
• COPPER-NICKEL
  Nicolite.
• COPPERING
  1. The act of covering with copper. 2. An envelope or covering of copper.
• MALACHITE
  Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or
• COPPERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• COPPER-NOSE
  A red nose. Shak.
• COPPER
  the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers. Note: Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper; as, a copper boiler, tube, etc. All in a hot and copper sky. Coleridge.
• DECARBONATE
  To deprive of carbonic acid.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• SULPHOCARBONATE
  A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.
• HYDROCARBONATE
  A hydrocarbon. A hydrous carbonate, as malachite.
• SUPERCARBONATE
  A bicarbonate.
• SUBCARBONATE
  A carbonate containing an excess of the basic constituent.