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A print made by metallography.

Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.

One who writes on the subject of metals.

The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals.

Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.

Metalloid.

An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings.

Metalorganic.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

Of or pertaining to metallurgy.

One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in 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.

A worker in metals.

Beyond the scope or province of logic.

Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc. [Written also metallorganic.]

A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.

A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.

ting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; -- used for making bells. Bell metal ore, a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron; the mineral stannite.

Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.

The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in the currency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition to monometallism.