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Word Meanings - JAMESONITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.

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  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • STEELHEAD
    A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
  • STEELINESS
    The quality of being steely.
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • MASSIVELY
    In a heavy mass.
  • MINERALIZATION
    The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • COMMONLY
    1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser.
  • METALLICLY
    In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
  • METALLICAL
    See METALLIC
  • LUSTER
    One who lusts.
  • SULPHIDE
    A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret. Double sulphide , a compound of two sulphides. -- Hydrogen sulphide. See under Hydrogen. -- Metallic sulphide, a binary compound of sulphur with a metal.
  • STEELY
    1. Made of steel; consisting of steel. "The steely point of Clifford's lance." Shak. Around his shop the steely sparkles flew. Gay. 2. Resembling steel; hard; firm; having the color of steel. "His hair was steely gray." The Century. She would unarm
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • MINERALOGICALLY
    According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
  • LUSTERING
    1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.
  • STEELYARD
    A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm indicating
  • LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
    Destitute of luster; dim; dull.
  • MASSIVENESS
    The state or quality of being massive; massiness.
  • ANTIMONY
    An elementary substance, resembling a metal in its appearance and physical properties, but in its chemical relations belonging to the class of nonmetallic substances. Atomic weight, 120. Symbol, Sb. Note: It is of tin-white color, brittle, laminated
  • CARBON STEEL
    Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
  • UNSTEEL
    To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
  • LOW STEEL
    See LOW
  • NICKEL STEEL
    A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
  • NATURAL STEEL
    Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
  • BESSEMER STEEL
    Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English
  • DO-LITTLE
    One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
  • TERSULPHIDE
    A trisulphide.
  • AETHIOPS MINERAL
    See MINERAL
  • CLUSTERY
    Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
  • MONOMETALLIC
    Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
  • BIMETALLIC
    Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

 

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