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Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

Making a clang, or a ringing metallic sound. [Obs.]

A sharp, brief, ringing sound, made by a collision of metallic or other sonorous bodies; -- usually expressing a duller or less resounding sound than clang, and a deeper and stronger sound than clink. But not in chains to pine, His spirit withered with tyeur clank. Byron.

claw, as the base of petals of the pink. Gray. Claw hammer, a hammer with one end of the metallic head cleft for use in extracting nails, etc. -- Claw hammer coat, a dress coat of the swallowtail pattern. [Slang] -- Claw sickness, foot rot, a disease affecting sheep.

To cause to give out a slight, sharp, tinkling, sound, as by striking metallic or other sonorous bodies together. And let me the canakin clink. Shak.

A metallic bushing or strengthening piece in the center of a wooden block sheve.

Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

e products. -- Surface condensation, the system of condensing steam by contact with cold metallic surfaces, in distinction from condensation by the injection of cold water.

densing steam, especially the exhaust of a steam engine, by bringing it into contact with metallic surface cooled by water or air.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

ountry; a specie currency; esp., government or bank notes circulating as a substitute for metallic money.

A kind of card or comb having rows of metallic teeth or serrated ridges, used in curryng a horse.

A rare metallic element found in platinum ore. It is a white malleable substance. Symbol Da. Atomic weight 154.

A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.

The sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

art of separating metals from foreign matters, and determining the nature and quantity of metallic substances contained in any ore or mineral.

h end of which is stretched a piece of skin or vellum, to be beaten with a stick; or of a metallic hemisphere (kettledrum) with a single piece of skin to be so beaten; the common instrument for marking time in martial music; one of the pair of tympani in an orchestra, or cavalry band. The drums cry bud-a-dub. Gascoigne…

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

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