Word Meanings - STERROMETAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.

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• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• CANNON BONE
  See BONE
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• CANNONADE
  1. The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance. A furious cannonade was kept up from the whole circle
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• 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.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• 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.
• CANNONEER; CANNONIER
  A man who manages, or fires, cannon.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• COPPERHEAD
  A poisonous American serpent , closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
• CANNONED
  Furnished with cannon. "Gilbralter's cannoned steep." M. Arnold.
• COPPERPLATE
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper
• ALLOY STEEL
  Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.
• COPPERAS
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• COPPERY
  Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
• COPPER-NICKEL
  Nicolite.
• UNALLOYED
  Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness. I enjoyed unalloyed satisfaction in his company. Mitford.
• DEMICANNON
  A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty to thirty-six pounds. Shak.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• CANONIC; CANNONICAL
  Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of
• HALLOYSITE
  A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.