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.

• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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]

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