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.

• Symbolics
  The study of ancient symbols
• Water ram
  An hydraulic ram.
• Undermasted
  Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• Underwrought
  of Underwork
• WATERMEADOW
  A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept in a state of fertility by being overflowed with water from some adjoining river or stream.
• Founding
  of Found
• Waterer
  One who, or that which, waters.
• Underactor
  A subordinate actor.
• Water scorpion
  See Nepa.
• Underofficer
  A subordinate officer.
• UNDERGROUNDINSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• Waterage
  Money paid for transportation of goods, etc., by water.
• WATEROPOSSUM
  See Yapock, and the Note under Opossum.
• Grouped
  of Group
• Water gang
  A passage for water, such as was usually made in a sea wall, to drain water out of marshes.
• Underbuilding
  Same as Substruction.
• Waterspout
  A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
• Underprize
  To undervalue; to underestimate.
• WATERBATTERY
  A voltaic battery in which the exciting fluid is water. 2. (Mil.)

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