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To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

Small hand shears for cutting sheet metal.

A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature always occuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolated as a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that it combines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept under petroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used…

alleable; -- opposed to Ant: hard; as, a soft bed; a soft peach; soft earth; soft wood or metal.

A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic coment. Hence, anything which unites or cements. Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc. -- Soft solder, a solder fusible at comparatively…

rous flies of the genus Stratyomys and allied genera. They are often bright green, with a metallic luster, and are ornamented on the sides of the back with markings of yellow, like epaulets or shoulder straps. -- Soldier moth (Zoöl.), a large geometrid moth (Euschema militaris), having the wings bright yellow with blu…

ropriate solvent of most salts, alcohol of resins, ether of fats, and mercury or acids of metal, etc.

Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

or associate with others, esp. with others of the same kind or species; to agree. Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward. The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon.

Any elongated instrument or probe, usually metallic, by which cavities of the body are sounded or explored, especially the bladder for stone, or the urethra for a stricture.

The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.

A small piece of metal cast lower than a face type, so as not to receive the ink in printing, -- used to separate words or letters.

A small plate or boss of shining metal; something brilliant used as an ornament, especially when stitched on the dress.

An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein. Blue spar, Cube spar, etc. See under Blue, Cube, etc.

Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie. [Obs.] There was, in the splendor of the Roman empire, a less quantity of current species in Europe than there is now. Arbuthnot.

e qualities of a speculum, or mirror; having a smooth, reflecting surface; as, a specular metal; a specular surface.

A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archæology.

s.), the state of a liquid, as water, when, on being thrown on a surface of highly heated metal, it rolls about in spheroidal drops or masses, at a temperature several degrees below ebullition, and without actual contact with the heated surface, -- a phenomenon due to the repulsive force of heat, the intervention of a…

Like a spike; spikelike. These spiky, vivid outbursts of metallic vapors. C. A. Young.

A metallic rod or pin.