Word Meanings - HAMMER-HARDEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.
Related words: (words related to HAMMER-HARDEN)
- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - HAMMER LOCK
A hold in which an arm of one contestant is held twisted and bent behind his back by his opponent. - METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - 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 - HAMMERER
One who works with a hammer. - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - HAMMER
That part of a gunlock which strikes the percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly, however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock to ignite the priming. Also, a person of thing that - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - METALLINE
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. - METALLOPHONE
An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars. - METALLICLY
In a metallic manner; by metallic means. - METALLICAL
See METALLIC - HAMMER-LESS
Without a visible hammer; -- said of a gun having a cock or striker concealed from sight, and out of the way of an accidental touch. - METALEPTIC
Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to a metalepsis. 2. Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - METALLOGRAPHIC
Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - BIMETALLIST
An advocate of bimetallism. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed. - NONMETAL
Any one of the set of elements which, as contrasted with the metals, possess, produce, or receive, acid rather than basic properties; a metalloid; as, oxygen, sulphur, and chlorine are nonmetals. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see