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whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.

A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.

A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.

A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.

Metaleptic. -- Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.

See Metallic. [Obs.]

In a metallic manner; by metallic means.

The production and working or manufacture of metals. [R.] R. Park.

Producing metals; yielding metals.

Having the form or structure of a metal.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.

A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.

The act or process of metallizing. [R.]

To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal. [R.]

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

The art or process of coloring metals.