Word Meanings - GOLD-BEATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

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• HAMMER LOCK
  A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent.
• BEATIFIC; BEATIFICAL
  Having the power to impart or complete blissful enjoyment; blissful. "The beatific vision." South. -- Be`a*tif"ic*al*ly, adv.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• HAMMERER
  One who works with a hammer.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• BEATIFICATION
  The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage
• HAMMER
  That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• BEATIFICATE
  To beatify. Fuller.
• HAMMER-LESS
  Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch.
• REDUCTIVELY
  By reduction; by consequence.
• PROCESSIONARY
  Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
• BEATER
  1. One who, or that which, beats. 2. A person who beats up game for the hunters. Black.
• HAMMERABLE
  Capable of being formed or shaped by a hammer. Sherwood.
• REDUCT
  To reduce. W. Warde.
• HAMMERKOP
  A bird of the Heron family; the umber.
• REDUCING
  a & n. from Reduce. Reducing furnace , a furnace for reducing ores. -- Reducing pipe fitting, a pipe fitting, as a coupling, an elbow, a tee, etc., for connecting a large pipe with a smaller one. -- Reducing valve, a device for automatically
• BEATIFY
  To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of "the blessed" and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized. (more info) 1. To pronounce or regard as happy, or supremely blessed, or as conferring
• DRUMBEAT
  The sound of a beaten drum; drum music. Whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. D. Webster.
• WINTER-BEATEN
  Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser.
• TRABEATED
  Furnished with an entablature.
• DEADBEAT
  Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
• ACID PROCESS
  That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
• CHALYBEATE
  Impregnated with salts of iron; having a taste like iron; as, chalybeate springs.
• IRREDUCIBLE
  Incapable of being reduced to a simpler form of expression; as, an irreducible formula. Irreducible case , a particular case in the solution of a cubic equation, in which the formula commonly employed contains an imaginary quantity, and therefore
• GOLD-HAMMER
  The yellow-hammer.
• TRABEATION
  See ENTABLATURE
• BARREL PROCESS
  A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.