Word Meanings - METALLOCHROME - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

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• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• STEELING
  The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• DEPOSITOR
  One who makes a deposit, especially of money in bank; -- the correlative of depository.
• STEELHEAD
  A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil.
• STEELINESS
  The quality of being steely.
• 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
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• DEPOSITARY
  One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor without a recompense. Kent. (more info) 1. One with whom anything is lodged in the trust; one who receives a deposit; -- the correlative of depositor. I . . . made you my guardians,
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• DEPOSITION
  The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writting, under oath or affirmation, befor some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories. Syn. -- Deposition, Affidavit.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• CARBON STEEL
  Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel.
• UNSTEEL
  To disarm; to soften. Richardson.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• DIPRISMATIC
  Doubly prismatic.
• LOW STEEL
  See LOW
• NICKEL STEEL
  A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• BESSEMER STEEL
  Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
  A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from