Word Meanings - BORNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Copperas
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate
• Purpled
  of Purple
• Sulphuric
  Of or pertaining to sulphur; as, a sulphuric smell.
• Valuableness
  The quality of being valuable.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Copper-bottomed
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• Purpleheart
  A strong, durable, and elastic wood of a purplish color, obtained from several tropical American leguminous trees of the genus Copaifera (C. pubiflora, bracteata, and officinalis). Used for decorative veneering. See Copaiba.
• Sulphurine
  Sulphureous.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Allusion
  A figurative or symbolical reference.
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Copper-faced
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• Purplewood
  Same as Purpleheart.
• Sulphuring
  Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; the process of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.
• CALLISTHENICCALLISTHENICS
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.

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