Word Meanings - ELECTROMAGNET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

• Betide
  To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer.
• Belittling
  of Belittle
• Bedding
  of Bed
• Cobaltous
  Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said esp. of cobalt compounds in which the metal has its lower valence.
• Bent
  of Bend
• Beem
  A trumpet.
• Passus
  of Passus
• Berate
  To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
• Behavior
  Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior of the magnetic needle.
• BECKSSCALE
  A hydrometer scale on which the zero point corresponds to sp. gr. 1.00, and the 30º-point to sp. gr. 0.85. From these points the scale is extended both ways, all the degrees being of equal length.
• Besnow
  To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.
• Bearberry
  A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.
• Betrayed
  of Betray
• Belletristic
  Alt. of Belletristical
• Bedbug
  A wingless, bloodsucking, hemipterous insect (Cimex Lectularius), sometimes infesting houses and especially beds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• Metal
  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 eleme
• Benedictional
  A book of benedictions.
• Beetle brow
  An overhanging brow.
• Placing
  of Place
• Bergamot
  A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit.

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