Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of vulcan is as below...

Parkesine :: Parkesine (n.) A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile..

Vulcanizer :: Vulcanizer (n.) One who, or that which, vulcanizes; esp., an apparatus for vulcanizing caoutchouc..

Vulcanism :: Vulcanism (n.) Volcanism.

Vulcanic :: Vulcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.

Volcanist :: Volcanist (n.) One who believes in the igneous, as opposed to the aqueous, origin of the rocks of the earth's crust; a vulcanist. Cf. Neptunist..

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..

Vulcanized :: Vulcanized (imp. & p. p.) of Vulcaniz.

Ebonite :: Ebonite (n.) A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus..

Hard-favored :: Hard-favored (a.) Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored..

Cyclops :: Cyclops (n. sing. & pl.) One of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna..

Vulcano :: Vulcano (n.) A volcano.

Kerite :: Kerite (n.) A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal or vegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closely resembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material in telegraphy..

Pandora :: Pandora (n.) A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods, which were lost to men when Pandora opened it..

Vulcanology :: Vulcanology (n.) The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc..

Vulcan :: Vulcan (n.) The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; -- answering to the Greek Hephaestus..

Vulcanic :: Vulcanic (a.) Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists..

Vulcanian :: Vulcanian (a.) Volcanic.

Sulphurous :: Sulphurize (v. t.) To combine or impregnate with sulphur or any of its compounds; as, to sulphurize caoutchouc in vulcanizing..

Intramercurial :: Intramercurial (a.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial..

Vulcanization :: Vulcanization (n.) The act or process of imparting to caoutchouc, gutta-percha, or the like, greater elasticity, durability, or hardness by heating with sulphur under pressure..

Random Fonts

Most Popular