Word Meanings - OPENWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A quarry; an open cut. Raymond. (more info) 1. Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

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• METALOGICAL
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• 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
• CONSTRUCT
  together, to construct; con- + struere to pile up, set in order. See 1. To put together the constituent parts of in their proper place and order; to build; to form; to make; as, to construct an edlifice. 2. To devise; to invent; to set in order;
• METALLIFORM
  Having the form or structure of a metal.
• QUARRY-FACED
  Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones.
• PERFORATA
  A division of corals including those that have a porous texture, as Porites and Madrepora; -- opposed to Aporosa. A division of Foraminifera, including those having perforated shells.
• METALLIFACTURE
  The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
• METALLOGRAPH
  A print made by metallography.
• CONSTRUCTIVELY
  In a constructive manner; by construction or inference. A neutral must have notice of a blockade, either actually by a formal information, or constructively by notice to his government. Kent.
• METALLINE
  Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.
• METALLOPHONE
  An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• METALEPTIC
  Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
• METALLOGRAPHIC
  Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
• METALMAN
  A worker in metals.
• METALLOGRAPHIST
  One who writes on the subject of metals.
• THROUGH
  thuru, OFries. thruch, D. door, OHG. durh, duruh, G. durch, Goth. ; 1. From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece
• BIMETALLIST
  An advocate of bimetallism.
• NONMETAL
  Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• IMPERFORATA
  A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shell is not porous.
• 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.
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• MONOMETALLISM
  The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
• STERROMETAL
  Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.