Definition of metal

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Metal (v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road..

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Caesium :: Caesium (n.) A rare alkaline metal found in mineral water; -- so called from the two characteristic blue lines in its spectrum. It was the first element discovered by spectrum analysis, and is the most strongly basic and electro-positive substance known. Symbol Cs. Atomic weight 132.6..
Key :: Key (n.) An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place..
Refractory :: Refractory (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; -- said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat, or to the hammer; as, a refractory ore..
Arsenide :: Arsenide (n.) A compound of arsenic with a metal, or positive element or radical; -- formerly called arseniuret..
Metalliferous :: Metalliferous (a.) Producing metals; yielding metals.
Punch :: Punch (n.) A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die..
Metallographic :: Metallographic (a.) Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography..
Harmoniphon :: Harmoniphon (n.) An obsolete wind instrument with a keyboard, in which the sound, which resembled the oboe, was produced by the vibration of thin metallic plates, acted upon by blowing through a tube..
Shut :: Shut (n.) The line or place where two pieces of metal are united by welding.
Biting In :: Biting in () The process of corroding or eating into metallic plates, by means of an acid. See Etch..
Brigandine :: Brigandine (n.) A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages..
Eyelet :: Eyelet (n.) A metal ring or grommet, or short metallic tube, the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action..
Cabbiri :: Cabbiri (n. pl.) Certain deities originally worshiped with mystical rites by the Pelasgians in Lemnos and Samothrace and afterwards throughout Greece; -- also called sons of Hephaestus (or Vulcan), as being masters of the art of working metals..
Fixation :: Fixation (n.) A state of resistance to evaporation or volatilization by heat; -- said of metals.
Principal :: Principal (n.) In English organs the chief open metallic stop, an octave above the open diapason. On the manual it is four feet long, on the pedal eight feet. In Germany this term corresponds to the English open diapason..
Spar :: Spar (n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein..
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool, or the tool to the work)..
Tipstaff :: Tipstaff (n.) An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.
Accordion :: Accordion (n.) A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds..
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