Word Meanings - STRONTIA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, and baryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metal strontium.

• Whiterump
  The American black-tailed godwit.
• Whitewing
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing.
• Earthshock
  An earthquake.
• WHITEBLAZE
  See White-face.
• Metalepses
  of Metalepsis
• WHITEPERSON
  A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256). In the time of slavery in the United States white person was generally construed as a person without admixture of colored blood. In various statutes and decisions in different States since 1865 white per
• Metallize
  To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
• Metalman
  A worker in metals.
• Whiteback
  The canvasback.
• Whiteflaw
  A whitlow.
• Colorimeter
  An instrument for measuring the depth of the color of anything, especially of a liquid, by comparison with a standard liquid.
• Earthen-hearted
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross.
• Whitewood
  The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree (Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building, etc.
• Earthstar
  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.
• WHITEEAR
  The wheatear.
• 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.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• 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.

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