Word Meanings - BULLIONIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.
Related words: (words related to BULLIONIST)
- METALLIC
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic - ADVOCATE
advocatus, one summoned or called to another; properly the p. p. of advocare to call to, call to one's aid; ad + vocare to call. See 1. One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - CURRENCY
currentia a current, fr. L. currens, p. pr. of currere to run. See 1. A continued or uninterrupted course or flow like that of a sream; as, the currency of time. Ayliffe. 2. The state or quality of being current; general acceptance or reception; - CONVERTIBLE
1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. - PAPERY
Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray. - CONVERTIBLENESS
The state of being convertible; convertibility. - PAPER
1. A substance in the form of thin sheets or leaves intended to be written or printed on, or to be used in wrapping. It is made of rags, straw, bark, wood, or other fibrous material, which is first reduced to pulp, then molded, pressed, and dried. - ALWAYS
1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. Even in Heaven his looks and thoughts. Milton. 2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- - ADVOCATESHIP
Office or duty of an advocate. - PAPERWEIGHT
See N - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. - CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum. - MONOMETALLIC
Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism. - BIMETALLIC
Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency. - BROMIDE PAPER; BROMID PAPER
A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging. - CAPPAPER
See N - INCONVERTIBLENESS
Inconvertibility. - INTERCONVERTIBLE
Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible. - BLOTTING PAPER
A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots. - NOTE PAPER
Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches. - CASSE PAPER
Broken paper; the outside quires of a ream. - ALPHA PAPER
A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride.