Word Meanings - BELLMETAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

• COPPERBOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• Copper-nose
  A red nose.
• THREECORNERED
  Having three prominent longitudinal angles; as, a three- cornered stem.
• Make-peace
  A peacemaker.
• THREETORQUESYSTEMOFCONTROL
  Any system of rudders by which the pilot can exert a turning moment about each of the three rectangular axes of an aëroplane or airship.
• Metalepses
  of Metalepsis
• Metallize
  To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
• Metalman
  A worker in metals.
• Stannite
  A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.
• Three-pile
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
• Consistent
  Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid.
• COPPERFACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• Copperplate
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
• THREEDECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• THREEVALVED
  Consisting of, or having, three valves; opening with three valves; as, a three-valved pericarp.
• Metalepsis
  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.
• Metallochrome
  A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
• Metalogical
  Beyond the scope or province of logic.
• Sulphide
  A binary compound of sulphur, or one so regarded; -- formerly called sulphuret.

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