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Blind :: Blind (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled..

Pricking-up :: Pricking-up (n.) The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths. Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat. In the United States called scratch coat.

Fur :: Fur (n.) Any coating considered as resembling fu.

Melanotype :: Melanotype (n.) A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture..

Tinsel :: Tinsel (n.) A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like..

Pitch :: Pitch (n.) A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them..

Electroplating :: Electroplating (n.) The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity..

Rust :: Rust (n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion..

Zinc :: Zinc (n.) An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9..

Spirifer :: Spiricle (n.) One of certain minute coiled threads in the coating of some seeds. When moistened these threads protrude in great numbers.

Coating :: Coating (n.) A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial..

Plating :: Plating (n.) A thin coating of metal laid upon another metal.

Glaze :: Glaze (n.) The vitreous coating of pottery or porcelain; anything used as a coating or color in glazing. See Glaze, v. t., 3..

Overlaying :: Overlaying (n.) A superficial covering; a coating.

Earthstar :: Earthstar (n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores..

Flock :: Flock (sing. / pl.) Very fine, sifted, woolen refuse, especially that from shearing the nap of cloths, used as a coating for wall paper to give it a velvety or clothlike appearance; also, the dust of vegetable fiber used for a similar purpose..

Leyden Phial :: Leyden phial () A glass jar or bottle used to accumulate electricity. It is coated with tin foil, within and without, nearly to its top, and is surmounted by a brass knob which communicates with the inner coating, for the purpose of charging it with electricity. It is so named from having been invented in Leyden, Holland..

Plating :: Plating (n.) A coating or defensive armor of metal (usually steel) plates.

Blinding :: Blinding (n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4..

Coating :: Coating (n.) Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings..

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