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cover with metal

any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

cover with metal

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, 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 mine from which ores are taken.

Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

Glass in a state of fusion.

The rails of a railroad.

To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

Ore from which a metal is derived; - so called by miners.

An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, 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 mine from which ores are taken.

Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

Glass in a state of fusion.

The rails of a railroad.

To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

Ore from which a metal is derived; - so called by miners.

A heavy, lustrous substance, capable of being drawn into a fine thread and beaten or hammered into thin plates, of being melted by heat, and of carrying electricity; material; substance; hence, spirit; temper.

To cover with metal, such as gold, silver, copper, etc.

Hard, heavy, fusible substance, as iron.

A solid, shining, opaque body, such as gold, etc.: broken stone used for macadamized roads.

A simple, fixed, opaque body, fusible by heat.

Metallic.

An elementary substance, usually hard, heavy, and malleable, as iron, gold, tin, etc.

A class of simple, combustible bodies; distinguished from others by considerable specific gravity; a particular splendour; amost total opacity; insolubility in water; and the property they have of ringing when struck. Metals have no effect, except of a mechanical nature, when taken into the stomach; unless they have already undergone, or undergo in the stomach, oxidation or union with an acid; when, at times, deleterious compounds may be formed. Copper cents; half-pence; quicksilver; lead, have frequently been swallowed in the metallic state with impunity. Tin and mercury are the only metals prescribed for a mechanical effect; the former as an anthelmintic, - the latter, idly enough, in cases of fancied intussusception.

Any element marked by luster, malleability, ductility, and conductivity of electricity and heat.

n. [Latin] A substance having a peculiar lustre, insoluble in water, a good conduce of heat and electricity, and usually solid at ordinary temperatures;— the effective power or calibre of guns carried by a vessel of war;— the materials of which glass, pottery, type, &c. are made;— small or broken stone used in macadamiaing roads.