Word Meanings - FOWLERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.

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• JERSEY
  1. The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool. 2. A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric . 3. One of a breed of cattle in the Island of
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• FRANKLIN
  An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen.
• FRANKLIN STOVE
  . A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves.
• RHODONITE
  Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• FRANKLINITE
  A kind of mineral of the spinel group.
• FURNACE
  1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note:
• VARIETY
  1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light.
• FRANKLINIC
  Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also statical electricity.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• PERNOT FURNACE
  A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.
• ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
  A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
• SUBVARIETY
  A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety.
• ALMOND FURNACE
  A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.