Word Meanings - KISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A workman's name for the graphite which forms incidentally in iron smelting.

Related words: (words related to KISH)

• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SMELTING
  a. & n. from Smelt. Smelting furnace , a furnace in which ores are smelted or reduced.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• SMELTIE
  A fish, the bib.
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• WORKMANLY
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• WORKMANLIKE
  Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.
• SMELTER
  One who, or that which, smelts.
• GRAPHITE
  Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc.
• DISWORKMANSHIP
  Bad workmanship. Heywood.
• TUT-WORKMAN
  One who does tut-work. Tomlinson.