Word Meanings - TOUCHSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Lydian stone; basanite; -- so called because used to test the purity of gold and silver by the streak which is left upon the stone when it is rubbed by the metal. See Basanite.
- Stonecray
A distemper in hawks. - Calligraphical
Of or pertaining to calligraphy. - Stoneware
A species of coarse potter's ware, glazed and baked. - Callosity
A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction. - SILVERGRAY
Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair. - Metalepses
of Metalepsis - Metallize
To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal. - Metalman
A worker in metals. - Silvering
of Silver - Silversides
Any one of several species of small fishes of the family Atherinidae, having a silvery stripe along each side of the body. The common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailo - Stonecrop
A sort of tree. - Calligraphist
A calligrapher - Stoneweed
Any plant of the genus Lithospermum, herbs having a fruit composed of four stony nutlets. - Callosum
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - SILVERITE
One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant] - 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. - 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. - Metalogical
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - Silverback
The knot. - Silversmith
One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.
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