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.