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Word Meanings - COPPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

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  • MIXEDLY
    In a mixed or mingled manner.
  • 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.
  • MIXTLY
    With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • MIXER
    One who, or that which, mixes.
  • COPPER-BOTTOMED
    Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • MIX
    mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miƧra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
  • COPPERY
    Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
  • MIXEN
    A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.
  • MIXTION
    1. Mixture. 2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
  • BORDEAUX MIXTURE
    A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
  • PERMIX
    To mix; to mingle.
  • PERMIXTION
    See PERMISSION
  • 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.
  • CHESSY COPPER
    The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
  • IMMIX
    To mix; to mingle. Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. Spenser.
  • COMMIX
    To mix or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.
  • INTERMIXTURE
    1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
  • INTERMIXEDLY
    In a mixed manner.

 

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