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Word Meanings - TINNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act, art, or process of covering or coating anything with melted tin, or with tin foil, as kitchen utensils, locks, and the like. 2. The covering or lining of tin thus put on.

Related words: (words related to TINNING)

  • LINGET
    An ingot.
  • LINGISM
    A mode of treating certain diseases, as obesity, by gymnastics; -- proposed by Pehr Henrik Ling, a Swede. See Kinesiatrics.
  • LINNE
    Flax. See Linen.
  • COATLESS
    Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • LINAGE
    See HOLLAND
  • LINGUAL
    Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter. Lingual ribbon. See Odontophore.
  • LINNAEA BOREALIS
    The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.
  • COATING
    1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. 2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.
  • LINCHI
    An esculent swallow.
  • COVERLET
    The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
  • KITCHEN MIDDENS
    Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
  • LINKS
    A tract of ground laid out for the game of golf; a golfing green. A second links has recently been opened at Prestwick, and another at Troon, on the same coast. P. P. Alexander.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • LINER
    A thin piece placed between two parts to hold or adjust them, fill a space, etc., ; a shim. (more info) 1. One who lines, as, a liner of shoes. 2. A vessel belonging to a regular line of packets; also, a line-of- battle ship; a ship of the line.
  • LINOLEIC
    Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically , designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.
  • LINGUATULIDA
    See LINGUATULINA
  • COVERCLE
    A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
  • LINGERING
    1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
  • BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
    See WORM
  • COLLINEATION
    The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
  • DUCKLING
    A young or little duck. Gay.
  • TOOLING
    Work perfomed with a tool. The fine tooling and delicate tracery of the cabinet artist is lost upon a building of colossal proportions. De Quincey.
  • SCRAMBLING
    Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
  • MEDULLIN
    A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • TOWELING
    Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
  • RIDGELING
    A half-castrated male animal. (more info) castrated, a sheep having only one testicle; cf. Prov. G. rigel, rig,
  • RECTILINEAL; RECTILINEAR
    Straight; consisting of a straight line or lines; bounded by straight lines; as, a rectineal angle; a rectilinear figure or course. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*al*ly, adv. -- Rec`ti*lin"e*ar*ly, adv.
  • CHURCHLINESS
    Regard for the church.
  • SCRATCH COAT
    The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • TRICLINATE
    Triclinic.
  • INDWELLING
    Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DELINEABLE
    Capable of being, or liable to be, delineated. Feltham.

 

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