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Metallic   /mətˈælɪk/   Listen
Metallic

adjective
1.
Containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal.  Synonym: metal.  "Metallic luster" , "The strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"
noun
1.
A fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal.
2.
A yarn made partly or entirely of metal.



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"Metallic" Quotes from Famous Books



... riches of the country, however, are a total waste at the present time, but which the Pacific railroad will at once develop, and make to itself the foundation of a vast revenue. I refer to its metallic wealth, the silver, gold, and copper mines that abound in almost every mountain and valley, between the Rio Grande and the Gulf ...
— Memoir of the Proposed Territory of Arizona • Sylvester Mowry

... the metallic tractors of Benjamin Charles Perkins, which were advertised as a "cure for all disorders, Red Noses," etc. Compare English Bards, ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron

... to his chair and dropped into it, moving deliberately. When he spoke his voice was cold and metallic. ...
— The Coming of the Law • Charles Alden Seltzer

... this point: Professor Goppert of Breslau, with a view of imitating the natural process of petrifaction, steeped a variety of animal and vegetable substances in waters, some holding siliceous, others calcareous, others metallic matter in solution. He found that in the period of a few weeks, or sometimes even days, the organic bodies thus immersed were mineralised to a certain extent. Thus, for example, thin vertical slices of deal, taken from the Scotch fir (Pinus sylvestris), ...
— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... Neradols; whereas the chromium and aluminium salts of the latter possess no such tannoid properties as will make the resultant leather exhibit any of the characteristics of either tannage, it is possible to carry out combined tannage with a mixture of Ordoval G and metallic salts. Tanning experiments carried out with the chromium, iron, aluminium, and calcium salts of Ordoval G yielded leathers which possessed proportionate characteristics of either kind of tannage to the extent to which either material was present. This combination ...
— Synthetic Tannins • Georg Grasser


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