Aich's Metal :: Aich's metal () A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin..

Babbitt Metal :: Babbitt metal () A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction..

Bell Metal :: Bell metal () A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells..

Bimetallic :: Bimetallic (a.) Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency..

Bimetallism :: Bimetallism (n.) The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism..

Bimetallist :: Bimetallist (n.) An advocate of bimetallism.

Blond Metal :: Blond metal () A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools..

Electro-metallurgy :: Electro-metallurgy (n.) The act or art precipitating a metal electro-chemical action, by which a coating is deposited, on a prepared surface, as in electroplating and electrotyping; galvanoplasty..

Experimetalist :: Experimetalist (n.) One who makes experiments; an experimenter.

Hydrometallurgical :: Hydrometallurgical (a.) Of or pertaining to hydrometallurgy; involving the use of liquid reagents in the treatment or reduction of ores.

Hydrometallurgy :: Hydrometallurgy (n.) The art or process of assaying or reducing ores by means of liquid reagents.

Kingston Metal :: Kingston metal () An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery..

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..

Metal :: Metal (n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.

Metal :: Metal (n.) A mine from which ores are taken.

Metal :: Metal (n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper..

Metal :: Metal (n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

Metal :: Metal (n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

Metal :: Metal (n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

Metal :: Metal (n.) Glass in a state of fusion.

Metal :: Metal (n.) The rails of a railroad.

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

Metalammonium :: Metalammonium (n.) A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.

Metalbumin :: Metalbumin (n.) A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.

Metaldehyde :: Metaldehyde (n.) A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same..

Metaled :: Metaled (imp. & p. p.) of Meta.

Metalepses :: Metalepses (pl. ) of Metalepsi.

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..

Metalepsy :: Metalepsy (n.) Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.

Metaleptic :: Metaleptic (a.) Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.

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