Word Meanings - BIMETALLIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

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• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• USHERDOM
  The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• USTULATE
  Blackened as if burned.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• SYSTEMATIZE
  To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
• DOUBLE
  Having the petals in a flower considerably increased beyond the natural number, usually as the result of cultivation and the expense of the stamens, or stamens and pistils. The white water lily and some other plants have their blossoms naturally
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• DOUBLE-LOCK
  To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.
• DOUBLE DEALER
  One who practices double dealing; a deceitful, trickish person. L'Estrange.
• USURY
  1. A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest. Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of anything that is lent upon usury. Deut. xxiii.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• DOUBLEHEARTED
  Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
• STANDARD
  The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• SYSTEMLESS
  Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
• SILVER
  A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite,
• MENISCUS
  A lens convex on one side and concave on the other. (more info) 1. A crescent.
• ANGUINEOUS
  Snakelike.
• PROTOGYNOUS
  See PROTEROGYNOUS
• MALACOSTOMOUS
  Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
• RIPARIOUS
  Growing along the banks of rivers; riparian.
• TROUSSEAU
  The collective lighter equipments or outfit of a bride, including clothes, jewelry, and the like; especially, that which is provided for her by her family.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• POLYPHYLLOUS
  Many-leaved; as, a polyphyllous calyx or perianth.
• PALACIOUS
  Palatial. Graunt.
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• BUSH
  The tail, or brush, of a fox. To beat about the bush, to approach anything in a round-about manner, instead of coming directly to it; -- a metaphor taken from hunting. -- Bush bean , a variety of bean which is low and requires no support . See
• STEATOPYGOUS
  Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
• DESMOGNATHOUS
  Having the maxillo-palatine bones united; -- applied to a group of carinate birds , including various wading and swimming birds, as the ducks and herons, and also raptorial and other kinds.
• HORRISONOUS
  Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey.
• BICUSPID
  One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.
• RUSHED
  Abounding or covered with rushes.
• ANTIBILLOUS
  Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
• BARBAROUS
  slavish, rude, ignorant; akin to L. balbus stammering, Skr. barbara 1. Being in the state of a barbarian; uncivilized; rude; peopled with barbarians; as, a barbarous people; a barbarous country. 2. Foreign; adapted to a barbaric taste. Barbarous
• CARNIVOROUS
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.