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compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

rocess of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.

To dig into, for ore or metal. Lead veins have been traced... but they have not been mined. Ure.

An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.

Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.

To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.

y and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.

Misleading. -- Mis*guid"ing*ly, adv.

of Mislead.

To deceive or lead astray with a false light. Herrick.

To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fr…

A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.

the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on…

To argue or plead in a supposed case. There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.

the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.