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Maslin :: Maslin (n.) A mixture of metals resembling brass.

Hardware :: Hardware (n.) Ware made of metal, as cutlery, kitchen utensils, and the like; ironmongery..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A slightly tapered tool of steel for enlarging or shaping a hole in metal, by being forced or driven into or through it; a broach..

Metalmen :: Metalmen (pl. ) of Metalma.

Rivet :: Rivet (n.) A metallic pin with a head, used for uniting two plates or pieces of material together, by passing it through them and then beating or pressing down the point so that it shall spread out and form a second head; a pin or bolt headed or clinched at both ends..

Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A

Tegulated :: Tegulated (a.) Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor..

Metallographic :: Metallographic (a.) Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography..

Clank :: Clank (n.) A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink..

Monometallism :: Monometallism (n.) 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..

Rail :: Rail (n.) The light, fencelike structures of wood or metal at the break of the deck, and elsewhere where such protection is needed..

Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below..

Metalepsis :: Metalepsis (n.) The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word..

Anneal :: Anneal (v. t.) To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen..

Lead :: Lead (n.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide..

Euxenite :: Euxenite (n.) A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals..

Hame :: Hame (n.) One of the two curved pieces of wood or metal, in the harness of a draught horse, to which the traces are fastened. They are fitted upon the collar, or have pads fitting the horse's neck attached to them..

Fid :: Fid (n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything..

Backsaw :: Backsaw (n.) A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

Crucible :: Crucible (n.) A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal..

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