Word Meanings - COPPERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• 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.
• PARTAKER
  1. One who partakes; a sharer; a participator. Partakers of their spiritual things. Rom. xv. 27. Wish me partaker in my happiness. Shark. 2. An accomplice; an associate; a partner. Partakers wish them in the blood of the prophets. Matt. xxiii. 30.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• TASTE
  by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
• 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.
• TASTER
  One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
• 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.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• TASTELESS
  1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• COPPERY
  Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• ATTASTE
  To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• DISTASTEFUL
  1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
• FORETASTE
  A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• ALETASTER
  See ALECONNER
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.