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Word Meanings - LUSTERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.

Related words: (words related to LUSTERING)

  • METALOGICAL
    Beyond the scope or province of logic.
  • 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
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • METALLIFORM
    Having the form or structure of a metal.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • IMPARTIAL
    Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
  • METALLIFACTURE
    The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park.
  • METALLOGRAPH
    A print made by metallography.
  • REFINED
    Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
  • 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
  • IMPARTIALIST
    One who is impartial. Boyle.
  • 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.
  • PROCESSIONARY
    Pertaining to a procession; consisting in processions; as, processionary service. Processionary moth , any moth of the genus Cnethocampa, especially C. processionea of Europe, whose larvæ make large webs on oak trees, and go out to feed in regular
  • METALLOGRAPHIC
    Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
  • LUSTER
    One who lusts.
  • METALMAN
    A worker in metals.
  • METALLOGRAPHIST
    One who writes on the subject of metals.
  • ASCERTAINMENT
    The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
  • ASCERTAINABLE
    That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
  • PREFINE
    To limit beforehand. Knolles.
  • SELF-IMPARTING
    Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
  • BIMETALLIST
    An advocate of bimetallism.
  • 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.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • BARREL PROCESS
    A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.
  • UNCERTAINTY
    1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
  • MONOMETALLIC
    Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
  • CLUSTERY
    Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
  • BIMETALLIC
    Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
  • LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
    A want of luster. -- a.

 

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