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Dollardee :: Dollardee (n.) A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream..

Still :: Still (v.) A vessel, boiler, or copper used in the distillation of liquids; specifically, one used for the distillation of alcoholic liquors; a retort. The name is sometimes applied to the whole apparatus used in in vaporization and condensation..

Azurite :: Azurite (n.) Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Metal :: Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc..

Manilla :: Manilla (n.) A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa..

Verdigris :: Verdigris (n.) A green poisonous substance used as a pigment and drug, obtained by the action of acetic acid on copper, and consisting essentially of a complex mixture of several basic copper acetates..

Turquois :: Turquois (n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface..

Frankfort Black :: Frankfort black () A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc..

Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..

Vitriol :: Vitriol (n.) A sulphate of any one of certain metals, as copper, iron, zinc, cobalt. So called on account of the glassy appearance or luster..

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper..

Saunders-blue :: Saunders-blue (n.) A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper..

Mannheim Gold :: Mannheim gold () A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.

Dioptase :: Dioptase (n.) A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals..

Ground :: Ground (v. t.) To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching (see Ground, n., 5); or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament..

Cupreous :: Cupreous (a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

Copperhead :: Copperhead (n.) A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.

Doop :: Doop (n.) A little copper cup in which a diamond is held while being cut.

Similor :: Similor (n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, but of a golden color..

Coppery :: Coppery (a.) Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper..

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