Word Meanings - LINARITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hydrous sulphate of lead and copper occurring in bright blue monoclinic crystals.

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• BRIGHT
  See I
• SULPHATE
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• 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.
• OCCURRENT
  1. One who meets; hence, an adversary. Holland. 2. Anything that happens; an occurrence. These we must meet with in obvious occurrents of the world. Sir T. Browne.
• 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.
• BRIGHTSOME
  Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant. Marlowe.
• 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.
• MONOCLINIC
  Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
• BRIGHTNESS
  1. The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness. A sudden brightness in his face appear. Crabbe. 2. Acuteness ; sharpness 9wit. The brightness of his parts . . . distinguished him. Prior. Syn. -- Splendor; luster;
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• OCCURRENCE
  1. A coming or happening; as, the occurence of a railway collision. Voyages detain the mind by the perpetual occurrence and expectation of something new. I. Watts. 2. Any incident or event; esp., one which happens without being designed
• 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.
• BRIGHT'S DISEASE
  An affection of the kidneys, usually inflammatory in character, and distinguished by the occurrence of albumin and renal casts in the urine. Several varieties of Bright's disease are now recognized, differing in the part of the kidney involved,
• EMBRIGHT
  To brighten.
• ANHYDROUS
  Destitute of water; as, anhydrous salts or acids.
• HYPOSULPHATE
  A salt of hyposulphuric acid.
• BISULPHATE
  A sulphate in which but half the hydrogen of the acid is replaced by a positive element or radical, thus making the proportion of the acid to the positive or basic portion twice what it is in the normal sulphates; an acid sulphate.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• PERSULPHATE
  A sulphate of the peroxide of any base.