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n sheets, used in Holland to ornament toys and paper; -- called also Dutch mineral, Dutch metal, brass foil, and bronze leaf. -- Dutch liquid (Chem.), a thin, colorless, volatile liquid, C2H4Cl2, of a sweetish taste and a pleasant ethereal odor, produced by the union of chlorine and ethylene or olefiant gas; -- called…

A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.

Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria.

To corrode, as metal, by rust; to consume the flesh, as a cancer; to waste or wear away; to destroy gradually; to cause to disappear. To eat humble pie. See under Humble. -- To eat of (partitive use). "Eat of the bread that can not waste." Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation…

An induced electric current circulating wholly within a mass of metal; -- called also Foucault current.

The operation of shaping or dressing the edge of anything, as of a piece of metal. Edging machine, a machine tool with a revolving cutter, for dressing edges, as of boards, or metal plates, to a pattern or templet.

A metallic substance compounded of gold and silver; an alloy. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A mode of etching upon metals by electrolytic action.

A mass, usually of soft iron, but sometimes of some other magnetic metal, as nickel or cobalt, rendered temporarily magnetic by being placed within a coil of wire through which a current of electricity is passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.…

The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.

Negative; nonmetallic; acid; -- opposed to positive, metallic, or basic.

Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid.

ent upon the temperature of a conductor, or a part of a circuit composed of two different metals.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

consisting of a flat cake of resin, shelllac, or ebonite, upon which is placed a plate of metal.

To plate or cover with a coating of metal, usually silver, nickel, or gold, by means of electrolysis.

t or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.

An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitæ, or the elixir of life.

Of or pertaining to certain veins of feldspathic or porphyritic rock crossing metalliferous veins in the mining districts of Cornwall; as, an elvan course.

the valleys, and embossed the hills. Sylvester. Alloy in coin of gold . . . may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. Bacon. Such pitiful embellishments of speech as serve for nothing but to embase divinity. South.