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glance
(encz) | glance,lesk n: Zdeněk Brož |
glance
(encz) | glance,lesknout se Zdeněk Brož |
glance
(encz) | glance,letmý Pavel Machek; Giza |
glance
(encz) | glance,pohled |
glance
(encz) | glance,pohlédnout |
glance
(encz) | glance,rychlý pohled Zdeněk Brož |
glance
(encz) | glance,třpyt Zdeněk Brož |
glance
(encz) | glance,třpytit se Zdeněk Brož |
Glance
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen,
Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
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Glance
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, v. t.
1. To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a
moment; as, to glance the eye.
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2. To hint at; to touch lightly or briefly. [Obs.]
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In company I often glanced it. --Shak.
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Glance
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glancing.]
1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools. --Tennyson.
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2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak.
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On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. --Milton.
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3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a
momentary or hasty view.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven. --Shak.
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4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
hint; -- often with at.
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Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak.
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He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
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5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be
visible only for an instant at a time; to move
interruptedly; to twinkle.
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And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small
glancing feet. --Macaulay.
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glance
(wn) | glance
n 1: a quick look [syn: glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil]
v 1: throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced
at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything
interesting" [syn: glance, peek, glint]
2: hit at an angle |
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a fleeting glance
(encz) | a fleeting glance,zběžný pohled Zdeněk Brož |
at a glance
(encz) | at a glance,na první pohled Zdeněk Brož |
at first glance
(encz) | at first glance,na první pohled Pavel Cvrček |
copper glance
(encz) | copper glance, n: |
glance
(encz) | glance,lesk n: Zdeněk Brožglance,lesknout se Zdeněk Brožglance,letmý Pavel Machek; Gizaglance,pohled glance,pohlédnout glance,rychlý pohled Zdeněk Brožglance,třpyt Zdeněk Brožglance,třpytit se Zdeněk Brož |
glance off
(encz) | glance off,otřít se o něco v: Petr Prášek |
glance over
(encz) | glance over,projít zběžně Zdeněk Brožglance over,přelétnout pohledem Zdeněk Brož |
glanced
(encz) | glanced,třpytil v: Zdeněk Brož |
glances
(encz) | glances,letmé pohledy Jaroslav Šedivý |
side-glance
(encz) | side-glance,pohled stranou Zdeněk Brož |
antimony glance
(gcide) | Stibnite \Stib"nite\, n. (Min.)
A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster,
occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; --
called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.
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Bismuth glance
(gcide) | Bismuth \Bis"muth\, n. [Ger. bismuth, wismuth: cf. F. bismuth.]
(Chem.)
One of the elements; a metal of a reddish white color,
crystallizing in rhombohedrons. It is somewhat harder than
lead, and rather brittle; masses show broad cleavage surfaces
when broken across. It melts at 507[deg] Fahr., being easily
fused in the flame of a candle. It is found in a native
state, and as a constituent of some minerals. Specific
gravity 9.8. Atomic weight 207.5. Symbol Bi.
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Note: Chemically, bismuth (with arsenic and antimony is
intermediate between the metals and nonmetals; it is
used in thermo-electric piles, and as an alloy with
lead and tin in the fusible alloy or metal. Bismuth is
the most diamagnetic substance known.
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Bismuth glance, bismuth sulphide; bismuthinite.
Bismuth ocher, a native bismuth oxide; bismite.
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brittle silver glance
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\ (s[i^]l"v[~e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver,
seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin
to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG.
silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan.
s["o]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of
unknown origin.]
1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile,
very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It
is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic,
antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite,
proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of
the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized,
and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety
of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7.
Specific gravity 10.5.
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Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients
and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as
the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of
light upon them, and are used in photography.
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2. Coin made of silver; silver money.
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3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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4. The color of silver.
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Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of
obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright,
silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed,
silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled,
silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding,
silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See
Silver, a.
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Black silver (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle
silver ore}, or brittle silver glance.
Fulminating silver. (Chem.)
(a) A black crystalline substance, Ag2O.(NH3)2, obtained
by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry
it explodes violently on the slightest percussion.
(b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance,
Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution
of silver nitrate; -- also called {fulminate of
silver}. When dry it is violently explosive.
German silver. (Chem.) See under German.
Gray silver. (Min.) See Freieslebenite.
Horn silver. (Min.) See Cerargyrite.
King's silver. (O. Eng. Law) See Postfine.
Red silver, or Ruby silver. (Min.) See Proustite, and
Pyrargyrite.
Silver beater, one who beats silver into silver leaf or
silver foil.
Silver glance, or Vitreous silver. (Min.) See
Argentine.
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Cobalt glance
(gcide) | Cobalt \Co"balt\ (k[=o]"b[o^]lt; 277, 74), n. [G. kobalt, prob.
fr. kobold, kobel, goblin, MHG. kobolt; perh. akin to G.
koben pigsty, hut, AS. cofa room, cofgodas household gods,
Icel. kofi hut. If so, the ending -old stands for older
-walt, -wald, being the same as -ald in E. herald and the
word would mean ruler or governor in a house, house spirit,
the metal being so called by miners, because it was poisonous
and troublesome. Cf. Kobold, Cove, Goblin.]
1. (Chem.) A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron
group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic
weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
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Note: It occurs in nature in combination with arsenic,
sulphur, and oxygen, and is obtained from its ores,
smaltite, cobaltite, asbolite, etc. Its oxide colors
glass or any flux, as borax, a fine blue, and is used
in the manufacture of smalt. It is frequently
associated with nickel, and both are characteristic
ingredients of meteoric iron.
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2. A commercial name of a crude arsenic used as fly poison.
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Cobalt bloom. Same as Erythrite.
Cobalt blue, a dark blue pigment consisting of some salt of
cobalt, as the phosphate, ignited with alumina; -- called
also cobalt ultramarine, and Thenard's blue.
Cobalt crust, earthy arseniate of cobalt.
Cobalt glance. (Min.) See Cobaltite.
Cobalt green, a pigment consisting essentially of the
oxides of cobalt and zinc; -- called also {Rinman's
green}.
Cobalt yellow (Chem.), a yellow crystalline powder,
regarded as a double nitrite of cobalt and potassium.
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Copper glance
(gcide) | Copper \Cop"per\, n. [OE. coper (cf. D. koper, Sw. koppar, Dan.
kobber, G. kupfer), LL. cuper, fr. L. cuprum for earlier
Cyprium, Cyprium aes, i.e., Cyprian brass, fr. Gr. ? of
Cyprus (Gr. ?), anciently renowned for its copper mines. Cf.
Cypreous.]
1. A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and
malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best
conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic
weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in
itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
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Note: Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly
in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of
which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite,
cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms
bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with
zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys.
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2. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin
of copper. [Colloq.]
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My friends filled my pockets with coppers.
--Franklin.
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3. A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
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4. pl. Specifically (Naut.), the boilers in the galley for
cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
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Note: Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense
of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper;
as, a copper boiler, tube, etc.
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All in a hot and copper sky. --Coleridge.
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Note: It is sometimes written in combination; as,
copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored.
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Copper finch. (Zool.) See Chaffinch.
Copper glance, or Vitreous copper. (Min.) See
Chalcocite.
Indigo copper. (Min.) See Covelline.
[1913 Webster]Chalcocite \Chal"co*cite\, n. [Gr. chalko`s brass.] (Min.)
Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and
vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic
luster. [Formerly written chalcosine.]
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copper glance
(gcide) | Copper \Cop"per\, n. [OE. coper (cf. D. koper, Sw. koppar, Dan.
kobber, G. kupfer), LL. cuper, fr. L. cuprum for earlier
Cyprium, Cyprium aes, i.e., Cyprian brass, fr. Gr. ? of
Cyprus (Gr. ?), anciently renowned for its copper mines. Cf.
Cypreous.]
1. A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and
malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best
conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic
weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in
itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze.
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Note: Copper is the only metal which occurs native abundantly
in large masses; it is found also in various ores, of
which the most important are chalcopyrite, chalcocite,
cuprite, and malachite. Copper mixed with tin forms
bell metal; with a smaller proportion, bronze; and with
zinc, it forms brass, pinchbeck, and other alloys.
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2. A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin
of copper. [Colloq.]
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My friends filled my pockets with coppers.
--Franklin.
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3. A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
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4. pl. Specifically (Naut.), the boilers in the galley for
cooking; as, a ship's coppers.
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Note: Copper is often used adjectively, commonly in the sense
of made or consisting of copper, or resembling copper;
as, a copper boiler, tube, etc.
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All in a hot and copper sky. --Coleridge.
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Note: It is sometimes written in combination; as,
copperplate, coppersmith, copper-colored.
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Copper finch. (Zool.) See Chaffinch.
Copper glance, or Vitreous copper. (Min.) See
Chalcocite.
Indigo copper. (Min.) See Covelline.
[1913 Webster]Chalcocite \Chal"co*cite\, n. [Gr. chalko`s brass.] (Min.)
Native copper sulphide, called also copper glance, and
vitreous copper; a mineral of a black color and metallic
luster. [Formerly written chalcosine.]
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Eyeglance
(gcide) | Eyeglance \Eye"glance`\, n.
A glance of eye.
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Glance coal
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen,
Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
[1913 Webster]Coal \Coal\ (k[=o]l), n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol,
cholo, G. kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr.
jval to burn. Cf. Kiln, Collier.]
1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
fragment from wood or other combustible substance;
charcoal.
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2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible
substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used
for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon,
but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a
large amount of volatile matter.
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Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first
part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal
formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
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Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken
mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals
on the fire. In the United States the singular in a
collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of
coal.
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Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen.
Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.
Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous.
Blind coal. See under Blind.
Brown coal or Brown Lignite. See Lignite.
Caking coal, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes
pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat,
the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent,
grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
Cannel coal, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine
texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.
Coal bed (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.
Coal breaker, a structure including machines and machinery
adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
Coal field (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal
occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and
are hence called coal basins. See Basin.
Coal gas, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from
bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc.,
and for cooking and heating.
Coal heaver, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in
putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
Coal measures. (Geol.)
(a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
(b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between
the millstone grit below and the Permian formation
above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds
of the world.
Coal oil, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
Coal plant (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of
plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
To haul over the coals, to call to account; to scold or
censure. [Colloq.]
Wood coal. See Lignite.
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Glance cobalt
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen,
Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
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Glance copper
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen,
Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
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Glance wood
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, n. [Akin to D. glans luster, brightness, G.
glanz, Sw. glans, D. glands brightness, glimpse. Cf. Gleen,
Glint, Glitter, and Glance a mineral.]
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1. A sudden flash of light or splendor.
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Swift as the lightning glance. --Milton.
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2. A quick cast of the eyes; a quick or a casual look; a
swift survey; a glimpse.
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Dart not scornful glances from those eyes. --Shak.
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3. An incidental or passing thought or allusion.
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How fleet is a glance of the mind. --Cowper.
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4. (Min.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly
dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as
the sulphide of copper, called copper glance.
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Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of
carbon.
Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
Glance copper, chalcocite.
Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and used for
gauging instruments, carpenters' rules, etc. --McElrath.
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Glanced
(gcide) | Glance \Glance\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glanced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Glancing.]
1. To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
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From art, from nature, from the schools,
Let random influences glance,
Like light in many a shivered lance,
That breaks about the dappled pools. --Tennyson.
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2. To strike and fly off in an oblique direction; to dart
aside. "Your arrow hath glanced". --Shak.
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On me the curse aslope
Glanced on the ground. --Milton.
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3. To look with a sudden, rapid cast of the eye; to snatch a
momentary or hasty view.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to
heaven. --Shak.
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4. To make an incidental or passing reflection; to allude; to
hint; -- often with at.
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Wherein obscurely
Caesar's ambition shall be glanced at. --Shak.
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He glanced at a certain reverend doctor. --Swift.
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5. To move quickly, appearing and disappearing rapidly; to be
visible only for an instant at a time; to move
interruptedly; to twinkle.
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And all along the forum and up the sacred seat,
His vulture eye pursued the trip of those small
glancing feet. --Macaulay.
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Iron glance
(gcide) | Iron \I"ron\ ([imac]"[u^]rn), a. [AS. [imac]ren, [imac]sen. See
Iron, n.]
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1. Of, or made of iron; consisting of iron; as, an iron bar,
dust.
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2. Resembling iron in color; as, iron blackness.
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3. Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of
endurance, insensibility, etc.; as:
(a) Rude; hard; harsh; severe.
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Iron years of wars and dangers. --Rowe.
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Jove crushed the nations with an iron rod.
--Pope.
(b) Firm; robust; enduring; as, an iron constitution.
(c) Inflexible; unrelenting; as, an iron will.
(d) Not to be broken; holding or binding fast; tenacious.
"Him death's iron sleep oppressed." --Philips.
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Note: Iron is often used in composition, denoting made of
iron, relating to iron, of or with iron; producing
iron, etc.; resembling iron, literally or figuratively,
in some of its properties or characteristics; as,
iron-shod, iron-sheathed, iron-fisted, iron-framed,
iron-handed, iron-hearted, iron foundry or
iron-foundry.
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Iron age.
(a) (Myth.) The age following the golden, silver, and
bronze ages, and characterized by a general
degeneration of talent and virtue, and of literary
excellence. In Roman literature the Iron Age is
commonly regarded as beginning after the taking of
Rome by the Goths, A. D. 410.
(b) (Arch[ae]ol.) That stage in the development of any
people characterized by the use of iron implements in
the place of the more cumbrous stone and bronze.
Iron cement, a cement for joints, composed of cast-iron
borings or filings, sal ammoniac, etc.
Iron clay (Min.), a yellowish clay containing a large
proportion of an ore of iron.
Iron cross, a German, and before that Prussian, order of
military merit; also, the decoration of the order.
Iron crown, a golden crown set with jewels, belonging
originally to the Lombard kings, and indicating the
dominion of Italy. It was so called from containing a
circle said to have been forged from one of the nails in
the cross of Christ.
Iron flint (Min.), an opaque, flintlike, ferruginous
variety of quartz.
Iron founder, a maker of iron castings.
Iron foundry, the place where iron castings are made.
Iron furnace, a furnace for reducing iron from the ore, or
for melting iron for castings, etc.; a forge; a
reverberatory; a bloomery.
Iron glance (Min.), hematite.
Iron hat, a headpiece of iron or steel, shaped like a hat
with a broad brim, and used as armor during the Middle
Ages.
Iron horse, a locomotive engine. [Colloq.]
Iron liquor, a solution of an iron salt, used as a mordant
by dyers.
Iron man (Cotton Manuf.), a name for the self-acting
spinning mule.
Iron mold or Iron mould, a yellow spot on cloth stained
by rusty iron.
Iron ore (Min.), any native compound of iron from which the
metal may be profitably extracted. The principal ores are
magnetite, hematite, siderite, limonite, G["o]thite,
turgite, and the bog and clay iron ores.
Iron pyrites (Min.), common pyrites, or pyrite. See
Pyrites.
Iron sand, an iron ore in grains, usually the magnetic iron
ore, formerly used to sand paper after writing.
Iron scale, the thin film which forms on the surface of
wrought iron in the process of forging. It consists
essentially of the magnetic oxide of iron, Fe3O4.
Iron works, a furnace where iron is smelted, or a forge,
rolling mill, or foundry, where it is made into heavy
work, such as shafting, rails, cannon, merchant bar, etc.
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Lead glance
(gcide) | Lead \Lead\ (l[e^]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le['a]d; akin
to D. lood, MHG. l[=o]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead,
small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123.]
1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic
metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily
tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with
little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets,
etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible
(melting point 327.5[deg] C), forms alloys with other
metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal.
Atomic number 82. Atomic weight, 207.2. Symbol Pb (L.
Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena,
lead sulphide.
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2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as:
(a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea.
(b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate
lines of type in printing.
(c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs;
hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne
plates.
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I would have the tower two stories, and goodly
leads upon the top. --Bacon
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3. A small cylinder of black lead or graphite, used in
pencils.
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Black lead, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its
leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.]
Coasting lead, a sounding lead intermediate in weight
between a hand lead and deep-sea lead.
Deep-sea lead, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in
water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
Hand lead, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water.
Krems lead, Kremnitz lead [so called from Krems or
Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead,
formed into tablets, and called also Krems white, or
Kremnitz white, and Vienna white.
Lead arming, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead.
See To arm the lead (below).
Lead colic. See under Colic.
Lead color, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead.
Lead glance. (Min.) Same as Galena.
Lead line
(a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a
deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning.
(b) (Naut.) A sounding line.
Lead mill, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries.
Lead ocher (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead.
Same as Massicot.
Lead pencil, a pencil of which the marking material is
graphite (black lead).
Lead plant (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus Amorpha
(Amorpha canescens), found in the Northwestern United
States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead
ore. --Gray.
Lead tree.
(a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous
tree, Leuc[ae]na glauca; -- probably so called from
the glaucous color of the foliage.
(b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a
solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip
of zinc in lead acetate.
Mock lead, a miner's term for blende.
Red lead, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder,
consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing
several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or
cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass.
Red lead ore (Min.), crocoite.
Sugar of lead, acetate of lead.
To arm the lead, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a
sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature
of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
To cast the lead, or To heave the lead, to cast the
sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water.
White lead, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a
white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of
white paint.
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Lightning glance
(gcide) | Lightning \Light"ning\ (l[imac]t"n[i^]ng), n. [For lightening,
fr. lighten to flash.]
1. A discharge of atmospheric electricity, accompanied by a
vivid flash of light, commonly from one cloud to another,
sometimes from a cloud to the earth. The sound produced by
the electricity in passing rapidly through the atmosphere
constitutes thunder.
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2. The act of making bright, or the state of being made
bright; enlightenment; brightening, as of the mental
powers. [R.]
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Ball lightning, a rare form of lightning sometimes seen as
a globe of fire moving from the clouds to the earth.
Chain lightning, lightning in angular, zigzag, or forked
flashes.
Heat lightning, more or less vivid and extensive flashes of
electric light, without thunder, seen near the horizon,
esp. at the close of a hot day.
Lightning arrester (Telegraphy), a device, at the place
where a wire enters a building, for preventing injury by
lightning to an operator or instrument. It consists of a
short circuit to the ground interrupted by a thin
nonconductor over which lightning jumps. Called also
lightning discharger.
Lightning bug (Zool.), a luminous beetle. See Firefly.
Lightning conductor, a lightning rod.
Lightning glance, a quick, penetrating glance of a
brilliant eye.
Lightning rod, a metallic rod set up on a building, or on
the mast of a vessel, and connected with the earth or
water below, for the purpose of protecting the building or
vessel from lightning.
Sheet lightning, a diffused glow of electric light flashing
out from the clouds, and illumining their outlines. The
appearance is sometimes due to the reflection of light
from distant flashes of lightning by the nearer clouds.
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Overglance
(gcide) | Overglance \O`ver*glance"\, v. t.
To glance over.
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Side glance
(gcide) | Side \Side\, a.
1. Of or pertaining to a side, or the sides; being on the
side, or toward the side; lateral.
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One mighty squadron with a side wind sped. --Dryden.
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2. Hence, indirect; oblique; collateral; incidental; as, a
side issue; a side view or remark.
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The law hath no side respect to their persons.
--Hooker.
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3. [AS. s[imac]d. Cf Side, n.] Long; large; extensive.
[Obs. or Scot.] --Shak.
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His gown had side sleeves down to mid leg.
--Laneham.
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Side action, in breech-loading firearms, a mechanism for
operating the breech block, which is moved by a lever that
turns sidewise.
Side arms, weapons worn at the side, as sword, bayonet,
pistols, etc.
Side ax, an ax of which the handle is bent to one side.
Side-bar rule (Eng. Law.), a rule authorized by the courts
to be granted by their officers as a matter of course,
without formal application being made to them in open
court; -- so called because anciently moved for by the
attorneys at side bar, that is, informally. --Burril.
Side box, a box or inclosed seat on the side of a theater.
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To insure a side-box station at half price.
--Cowper.
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Side chain,
(a) one of two safety chains connecting a tender with a
locomotive, at the sides.
(b) (Chem.) a chain of atoms attached to the main
structure of a large molecule, especially of a
polymer.
Side cut, a canal or road branching out from the main one.
[U.S.]
Side dish, one of the dishes subordinate to the main
course.
Side glance, a glance or brief look to one side.
Side hook (Carp.), a notched piece of wood for clamping a
board to something, as a bench.
Side lever, a working beam of a side-lever engine.
Side-lever engine, a marine steam engine having a working
beam of each side of the cylinder, near the bottom of the
engine, communicating motion to a crank that is above
them.
Side pipe (Steam Engine), a steam or exhaust pipe
connecting the upper and lower steam chests of the
cylinder of a beam engine.
Side plane, a plane in which the cutting edge of the iron
is at the side of the stock.
Side posts (Carp.), posts in a truss, usually placed in
pairs, each post set at the same distance from the middle
of the truss, for supporting the principal rafters,
hanging the tiebeam, etc.
Side rod.
(a) One of the rods which connect the piston-rod crosshead
with the side levers, in a side-lever engine.
(b) See Parallel rod, under Parallel.
Side screw (Firearms), one of the screws by which the lock
is secured to the side of a firearm stock.
Side table, a table placed either against the wall or aside
from the principal table.
Side tool (Mach.), a cutting tool, used in a lathe or
planer, having the cutting edge at the side instead of at
the point.
Side wind, a wind from one side; hence, an indirect attack,
or indirect means. --Wright.
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Silver glance
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\ (s[i^]l"v[~e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver,
seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin
to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG.
silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan.
s["o]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of
unknown origin.]
1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile,
very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It
is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic,
antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite,
proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of
the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized,
and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety
of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7.
Specific gravity 10.5.
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Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients
and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as
the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of
light upon them, and are used in photography.
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2. Coin made of silver; silver money.
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3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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4. The color of silver.
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Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of
obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright,
silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed,
silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled,
silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding,
silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See
Silver, a.
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Black silver (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle
silver ore}, or brittle silver glance.
Fulminating silver. (Chem.)
(a) A black crystalline substance, Ag2O.(NH3)2, obtained
by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry
it explodes violently on the slightest percussion.
(b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance,
Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution
of silver nitrate; -- also called {fulminate of
silver}. When dry it is violently explosive.
German silver. (Chem.) See under German.
Gray silver. (Min.) See Freieslebenite.
Horn silver. (Min.) See Cerargyrite.
King's silver. (O. Eng. Law) See Postfine.
Red silver, or Ruby silver. (Min.) See Proustite, and
Pyrargyrite.
Silver beater, one who beats silver into silver leaf or
silver foil.
Silver glance, or Vitreous silver. (Min.) See
Argentine.
[1913 Webster]Argentite \Ar"gen*tite\, n. [L. argentum silver.] (Min.)
Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or
silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color,
and is sectile like lead.
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silver glance
(gcide) | Silver \Sil"ver\ (s[i^]l"v[~e]r), n. [OE. silver, selver,
seolver, AS. seolfor, siolfur, siolufr, silofr, sylofr; akin
to OS. silubar, OFries. selover, D. zilver, LG. sulver, OHG.
silabar, silbar, G. silber, Icel. silfr, Sw. silfver, Dan.
s["o]lv, Goth. silubr, Russ. serebro, Lith. sidabras; of
unknown origin.]
1. (Chem.) A soft white metallic element, sonorous, ductile,
very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It
is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic,
antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite,
proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of
the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily oxidized,
and is used for coin, jewelry, plate, and a great variety
of articles. Symbol Ag (Argentum). Atomic weight 107.7.
Specific gravity 10.5.
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Note: Silver was known under the name of luna to the ancients
and also to the alchemists. Some of its compounds, as
the halogen salts, are remarkable for the effect of
light upon them, and are used in photography.
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2. Coin made of silver; silver money.
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3. Anything having the luster or appearance of silver.
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4. The color of silver.
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Note: Silver is used in the formation of many compounds of
obvious meaning; as, silver-armed, silver-bright,
silver-buskined, silver-coated, silver-footed,
silver-haired, silver-headed, silver-mantled,
silver-plated, silver-slippered, silver-sounding,
silver-studded, silver-tongued, silver-white. See
Silver, a.
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Black silver (Min.), stephanite; -- called also {brittle
silver ore}, or brittle silver glance.
Fulminating silver. (Chem.)
(a) A black crystalline substance, Ag2O.(NH3)2, obtained
by dissolving silver oxide in aqua ammonia. When dry
it explodes violently on the slightest percussion.
(b) Silver fulminate, a white crystalline substance,
Ag2C2N2O2, obtained by adding alcohol to a solution
of silver nitrate; -- also called {fulminate of
silver}. When dry it is violently explosive.
German silver. (Chem.) See under German.
Gray silver. (Min.) See Freieslebenite.
Horn silver. (Min.) See Cerargyrite.
King's silver. (O. Eng. Law) See Postfine.
Red silver, or Ruby silver. (Min.) See Proustite, and
Pyrargyrite.
Silver beater, one who beats silver into silver leaf or
silver foil.
Silver glance, or Vitreous silver. (Min.) See
Argentine.
[1913 Webster]Argentite \Ar"gen*tite\, n. [L. argentum silver.] (Min.)
Sulphide of silver; -- also called vitreous silver, or
silver glance. It has a metallic luster, a lead-gray color,
and is sectile like lead.
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Tellurium glance
(gcide) | Tellurium \Tel*lu"ri*um\, n. [NL., from L. tellus, -uris, the
earth.] (Chem.)
A rare nonmetallic element, analogous to sulphur and
selenium, occasionally found native as a substance of a
silver-white metallic luster, but usually combined with
metals, as with gold and silver in the mineral sylvanite,
with mercury in Coloradoite, etc. Symbol Te. Atomic weight
125.2.
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Graphic tellurium. (Min.) See Sylvanite.
Tellurium glance (Min.), nagyagite; -- called also {black
tellurium}.
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at first glance
(wn) | at first glance
adv 1: immediately; "it was love at first sight" [syn: {at first
sight}, at first glance] |
copper glance
(wn) | copper glance
n 1: a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper [syn:
chalcocite, copper glance] |
glance
(wn) | glance
n 1: a quick look [syn: glance, glimpse, coup d'oeil]
v 1: throw a glance at; take a brief look at; "She only glanced
at the paper"; "I only peeked--I didn't see anything
interesting" [syn: glance, peek, glint]
2: hit at an angle |
glance over
(wn) | glance over
v 1: examine hastily; "She scanned the newspaper headlines while
waiting for the taxi" [syn: scan, skim, rake, {glance
over}, run down] |
side-glance
(wn) | side-glance
n 1: a glance sideways; "she shot him an impatient side-glance"
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