Word Meanings - TOUCH-NEEDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small bar of gold and silver, either pure, or alloyed in some known proportion with copper, for trying the purity of articles of gold or silver by comparison of the streaks made by the article and the bar on a touchstone.

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• TRYGON
  Any one of several species of large sting rays belonging to Trygon and allied genera.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• PURITY
  The condition of being pure. Specifically: freedom from foreign admixture or deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. Cleanness; freedom from foulness or dirt. "The purity of a linen vesture." Holyday. Freedom from
• ALLOYAGE
  The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.
• TRYSAIL
  A fore-and-aft sail, bent to a gaff, and hoisted on a lower mast or on a small mast, called the trysail mast, close abaft a lower mast; -- used chiefly as a storm sail. Called also spencer. Totten.
• SILVERIZE
  To cover with silver.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SILVER STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname alluding to its silver mines.
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• SILVER
  A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite,
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• TRYPSINOGEN
  The antecedent of trypsin, a substance which is contained in the cells of the pancreas and gives rise to the trypsin.
• TRYPTIC
  Relating to trypsin or to its action; produced by trypsin; as, trypsin digestion.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• COMPARISON
  The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more
• SILVERWEED
  A perennial rosaceous herb having the leaves silvery white beneath.
• ARTICLE
  One of the three words, a, an, the, used before nouns to limit or define their application. A is called the indefinite article, the the definite article. (more info) 1. A distinct portion of an instrument, discourse, literary work, or any other
• TRYPTONE
  The peptone formed by pancreatic digestion; -- so called because it is formed through the agency of the ferment trypsin.
• MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
  Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
• IATROCHEMISTRY
  Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• CENTRY
  See GRAY
• ANCESTRY
  1. Condition as to ancestors; ancestral lineage; hence, birth or honorable descent. Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible. Addison. 2. A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• STRATARITHMETRY
  The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
• GANTRY
  See GAUNTREE
• GENTRY
  gentrise, and OF. gentelise, genterise, E. gentilesse, also OE. 1. Birth; condition; rank by birth. "Pride of gentrie." Chaucer. She conquers him by high almighty Jove, By knighthood, gentry, and sweet friendship's oath. Shak. 2. People
• CHLOROMETRY
  The process of testing the bleaching power of any combination of chlorine.
• SERPENTRY
  1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
• BAYEUX TAPESTRY
  A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century,
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• VOLUMENOMETRY
  The method or process of measuring volumes by means of the volumenometer.
• CHRONOMETRY
  The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
• IDOLATRY
  L. idololatria, Fr. Gr. 1. The worship of idols, images, or anything which is not God; the worship of false gods. His eye surveyed the dark idolatries Of alienated Judah. Milton. 2. Excessive attachment or veneration for anything; respect or love