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Word Meanings - HOLOSIDERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron without stony matter.

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  • 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
  • METEORICAL
    Meteoric.
  • MATTER
    1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • STONY
    1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust. 2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific. The stony dart of senseless cold.
  • WITHOUT-DOOR
    Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
  • WITHOUTFORTH
    Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
  • METALLICLY
    In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
  • METALLICAL
    See METALLIC
  • CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
    1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
  • MATTERLESS
    1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
  • CONSISTENT
    1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
  • METEORITE
    A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aƫrolite. Note: Meteorites usually show a pitted surface with a fused crust, caused by the heat developed in their rapid passage through the earth's atmosphere. A meteorite may
  • WITHOUTEN
    Without. Chaucer.
  • MATTER-OF-FACT
    Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
  • CONSISTORIAL
    Of or pertaining to a consistory. "Consistorial laws." Hooker. "Consistorial courts." Bp. Hoadley.
  • CONSISTORY
    The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. (more info) consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf.
  • MATTERY
    1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
  • ASTONY
    To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking.
  • 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.
  • INCONSISTENTLY
    In an inconsistent manner.
  • INCONSISTENCY
    1. The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incompatibility. There is a perfect inconsistency between
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
  • SUBJECT-MATTER
    The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
  • INCONSISTENTNESS
    Inconsistency.

 

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