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Plumbiferous :: Plumbiferous (a.) Producing or containing lead.

Level :: Level (n.) A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, and is a curve or surface in which all points are equally distant from the center of the earth, or rather would be so if the earth were an exact sphere..

Plumbism :: Plumbism (n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist..

Plumber Block :: Plumber block () A pillow block.

Vertical :: Vertical (a.) Perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright; plumb; as, a vertical line..

Unplumb :: Unplumb (v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin..

Plumbagin :: Plumbagin (n.) A crystalline substance said to be found in the root of a certain plant of the Leadwort (Plumbago) family.

Plumb :: Plumb (v. t.) To adjust by a plumb line; to cause to be perpendicular; as, to plumb a building or a wall..

Saturnism :: Saturnism (n.) Plumbism.

Plumber :: Plumber (n.) One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings..

Wadd :: Wadd (n.) Plumbago, or black lead..

Oxychloride :: Oxychloride (n.) A ternary compound of oxygen and chlorine; as, plumbic oxychloride..

Graphitoidal :: Graphitoidal (a.) Resembling graphite or plumbago.

Graphite :: Graphite (n.) Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead..

Perpendicle :: Perpendicle (n.) Something hanging straight down; a plumb line.

Lead :: Lead (n.) A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils..

Gimbals :: Gimbals (n.) A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship's compass, chronometer, etc., so that it will remain plumb, or level, when its support is tipped, as by the rolling of a ship. It consists of a ring in which the body can turn on an axis through a diameter of the ring, while the ring itself is so pivoted to its support that it can turn about a diameter at right angles to the first..

Plumbeous :: Plumbeous (a.) Dull; heavy; stupid.

Plumbing :: Plumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Plum.

Plumbago :: Plumbago (n.) Same as Graphite.

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