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A regulus consisting essentially of nickel, obtained as a residue in fusing cobalt and nickel ores with silica and sodium carbonate to make smalt.

A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

A nickname applied to a native of Illinois. [U. S.] Carp sucker, Cherry sucker, etc. See under Carp, Cherry, etc. -- Sucker fish. See Sucking fish, under Sucking. -- Sucker rod, a pump rod. See under Pump. -- Sucker tube (Zoöl.), one of the external ambulacral tubes of an echinoderm, -- usually terminated by a sucke…

Illinois; -- a nickname.

Kansas; a nickname.

Same as Zenick. [Written also suricate, surikate.]

One of the precursors of the Reformation; -- a nickname corresponding to Lollard, etc.

North Carolina; -- a nickname alluding to its extensive production of turpentine.

ral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.

nd in certain rare minerals, as pitchblende, uranite, etc., and reduced as a heavy, hard, nickel-white metal which is quite permanent. Its yellow oxide is used to impart to glass a delicate greenish-yellow tint which is accompanied by a strong fluorescence, and its black oxide is used as a pigment in porcelain painting…

pposed element, afterward found to be a mixture of several metals, as copper, iron, lead, nickel, etc.

Tennessee; -- a nickname.

Michigan; -- a nickname.

A nickname for an inhabitant of Michigan. [U. S.]

A nickname for a native of citizen of New England, especially one descended from old New England stock; by extension, an inhabitant of the Northern States as distinguished from a Southerner; also, applied sometimes by foreigners to any inhabitant of the United States. From meanness first this Portsmouth Yankey rose, An…

A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.

See Zenick.