Word Meanings - PAILLON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A thin leaf of metal, as for use in gilding or enameling, or to show through a translucent medium.
Related words: (words related to PAILLON)
- METALOGICAL
Beyond the scope or province of logic. - THROUGHOUT
In every part; as, the cloth was of a piece throughout. - 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 - METALLIFORM
Having the form or structure of a metal. - METALLIFACTURE
The production and working or manufacture of metals. R. Park. - METALLOGRAPH
A print made by metallography. - GILD
Etym: 1. To overlay with a thin covering of gold; to cover with a golden color; to cause to look like gold. "Gilded chariots." Pope. No more the rising sun shall gild the morn. Pope. 2. To make attractive; to adorn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, - 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 - 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. - METALLOGRAPHIC
Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography. - METALMAN
A worker in metals. - METALLOGRAPHIST
One who writes on the subject of metals. - GILDALE
A drinking bout in which every one pays an equal share. - METALLOCHROME
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. - ENAMEL
1. To lay enamel upon; to decorate with enamel whether inlaid or painted. 2. To variegate with colors as if with enamel. Oft he bowed His turret crest and sleek enameled neck. Milton. 3. To form a glossy surface like enamel upon; as, to enamel - METALLIZATION
The act or process of metallizing. - METALLIFEROUS
Producing metals; yielding metals. - METALLURGY
The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores. - OVERGILD
To gild over; to varnish. - 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. - ENGILD
To gild; to make splendent. Fair Helena, who most engilds the night. Shak. - ELECTRO-GILDING
The art or process of gilding copper, iron, etc., by means of voltaic electricity. - OCTOGILD
A pecuniary compensation for an injury, of eight times the value of the thing. - 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. - METALLINE
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. - MONOMETALLISM
The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism. - STERROMETAL
Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.