Word Meanings - KUPFERNICKEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.

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• 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.
• NICCOLITE
  A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.
• 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.
• 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.
• NICKELIFEROUS
  Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
• NICKELINE
  An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
• 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.
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• NICKELIC
  Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.
• NICKEL
  A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni.
• NICKELODEON
  A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents.
• COPPERY
  Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
• COPPER-NICKEL
  Nicolite.
• COPPERING
  1. The act of covering with copper. 2. An envelope or covering of copper.
• COPPERSMITH
  One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• KUPFERNICKEL
  Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
• PUMPERNICKEL
  A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.