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A mineral of a color between white and steel-gray, with a metallic luster, and consisting chiefly of arsenic and iron.

s are applied; -- used for transmitting and modifying force and motion. Specif., a bar of metal, wood, or other rigid substance, used to exert a pressure, or sustain a weight, at one point of its length, by receiving a force or power at a second, and turning at a third on a fixed point called a fulcrum. It is usually n…

A concave metallic mirror attached to the object-glass end of a microscope, to throw down light on opaque objects; a reflector.

A name sometimes applied to the process of annealing metals.

-- Lightning glance, a quick, penetrating glance of a brilliant eye. -- Lightning rod, a metallic rod set up on a building, or on the mast of a vessel, and connected with the earth or water below, for the purpose of protecting the building or vessel from lightning. -- Sheet lightning, a diffused glow of electric ligh…

Filings of metal. [Obs.] "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

es enamel, a kind of enamel ware in which the enamel is applied to the whole surface of a metal plaque, vase, or the like, and painted in enamel colors. The art was brought to a high degree of perfection in Limoges in the 16th century. -- Limoges ware. (a) Articles decorated with Limoges enamel. (b) Articles of porcel…

te; -- applied to brute animals. Creech. Lined gold, gold foil having a lining of another metal.

A linget or ingot; also, a mold for casting metals. See Linget.

A fabric consisting of links made of metal or other material fastened together; also, a chain. And thou shalt make hooks of gold, and two chains of fine gold; linkwork and wreathed. Udall.

A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.

The process of separating, by heat, an easily fusible metal from one less fusible; eliquation.

A metallic element of the alkaline group, occurring in several minerals, as petalite, spodumene, lepidolite, triphylite, etc., and otherwise widely disseminated, though in small quantities.

A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.

ther thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.

A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.

A maker of bits, spurs, and metal mounting for bridles and saddles; hence, a saddler. [Obs.] Holinshed.

- used for women's dresses. Luster ware, earthenware decorated by applying to the glazing metallic oxides, which acquire brilliancy in the process of baking.

The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes.