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Word Meanings - INTRAMERCURIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial.

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  • VULCANO
    A volcano.
  • VULCANOLOGY
    The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc.
  • VULCANIZATION
    The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure.
  • PLANETULE
    A little planet. Conybeare.
  • PLANETED
    Belonging to planets. Young.
  • PLANETOIDAL
    Pertaining to a planetoid.
  • VULCANITE
    Hard rubber produced by vulcanizing with a large proportion of sulphur.
  • VULCANIAN
    Volcanic. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; hence, of or pertaining to works in iron or other metals. Ingenious allusions to the Vulcanian panoply which Achilles lent to his feebler friend. Macaulay.
  • VULCANISM
    Volcanism.
  • VULCAN
    The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephæstus.
  • VULCANICITY
    Volcanicity.
  • PLANET
    A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system. Note: The term planet was first used
  • PLANETARIUM
    An orrery. See Orrery.
  • BETWEEN
    betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
  • VULCANIST
    A volcanist.
  • VULCANIZER
    One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc.
  • PLANETOID
    A body resembling a planet; an asteroid.
  • VULCAN POWDER
    A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin , sodium nitrate , charcoal , and sulphur , used in mining and blasting.
  • PLANETIC; PLANETICAL
    Of or pertaining to planets. Sir T. Browne.
  • PLANETARY
    Under the dominion or influence of a planet. "Skilled in the planetary hours." Drayton. 4. Caused by planets. "A planetary plague." Shak. 5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. "Erratical and planetary life."
  • INTERPLANETARY
    Between planets; as, interplanetary spaces. Boyle.
  • GO-BETWEEN
    An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.

 

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