Word Meanings - THALLIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.

• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Metalorganic
  Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• Underhand
  Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)
• Understroke
  To underline or underscore.
• WATERPOA
  Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.
• Chambered
  of Chamber
• Water horehound
  Bugleweed.
• Oxidizement
  Oxidation.
• Water torch
  The common cat-tail (Typha latifolia), the spike of which makes a good torch soaked in oil.
• Underlaborer
  An assistant or subordinate laborer.
• WATERBUFFALO
  The European buffalo.
• Undertone
  A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.
• WATERROCKET
  A cruciferous plant (Nasturtium sylvestre) with small yellow flowers. 2. A kind of firework to be discharged in the water.
• Depositum
  Deposit.
• Water leg
  See Leg, 7.
• Symbolics
  The study of ancient symbols
• Waterweed
  See Anacharis.
• Undermasted
  Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

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