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That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.

One of the elements, belonging to the alkaline earth group; a metal having a silver-white color, and melting at a very high temperature. It is difficult to obtain the pure metal, from the facility with which it becomes oxidized in the air. Atomic weight,

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

The metal barium. See Barium. [R.]

ld, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Of little comparative value, as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals.

eparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. -- Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs." Dickens. -- Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces…

To flatten (metal) by hammering, so as to compress it inwardly and spread it outwardly.

series of stamps operated by one motive power, for crushing ores containing the precious metals. Knight.

A small knob of metal on a firearm, used for taking aim (whence the expression to draw a bead, for, to take aim).

A beam, shod or armed at the end with a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

urniture to bear off the impression from a blank page; also, a type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved.

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a ringing sound on being struck.

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

latter contains, through the agency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; -- so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventor of the process.

A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor.

A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.