Metals
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Metals

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Metals (1 Occurrence)
...METALS. met'-alz (Latin metallum, "metal," "mine"; Greek metallon, "mine"): The
metals known by the ancients were copper, gold, iron, lead, silver and tin. ...
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Mine (2991 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious
stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage ...
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Metallurgy
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The art of working metals, comprehending the whole
process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining ...
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Alloy
... 1. (vt) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals;
for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. ...
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Mining
... very likely derived his information either from personal observation or from a
description by an eyewitness, of the mining operations of Sinai (see METALS). ...
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Lead (192 Occurrences)
... Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals,
and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. ...
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Gold (429 Occurrences)
... The late origin of the geological formation of Palestine and Syria precludes the
possibility of gold being found in any quantities (see METALS), so that the ...
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Tools (3 Occurrences)
... 1) The percussion tool was the hammer, used for splitting or trimming stone, beating
metals, and in wood-carving, as well as for driving nails, tent pins, etc. ...
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Rust (7 Occurrences)
... The copper of the caldron oxidizes and scales off in black or brownish scales, or
rust. ios, was used in Greek to denote the corroding of metals. ...
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Refiner (10 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The process of refining metals is referred to by way of
illustrations in Isaiah 1:25; Jeremiah 6:29; Zechariah 13:9; Malachi 3:2, 3. ...
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Dross (7 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals
in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. ...
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Metal (69 Occurrences)
... 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 ...
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Crucible (3 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A melting pot for purifying metals; also a hardship that is a test and builder
of character, as in a melting pot composed of some very refractory ...
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Copper (55 Occurrences)
... 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. 2 ...
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Soap (4 Occurrences)
... "The ancients made use of alkali mingled with oil, instead of soap (Job 9:30), and
also in smelting metals, to make them melt and flow more readily and purely ...
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Money (284 Occurrences)
... We have abundant evidence of the use of these metals in the Biblical records, and
we know from the monuments that they were used as money before the time of ...
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Crafts (2 Occurrences)
... The art of engraving on various hard objects, such as clay, bone, ivory,
metals and precious stones, probably came from Mesopotamia. ...
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Try (84 Occurrences)
... the good. 2. (vt) To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure
in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc. 3. (vt) To ...
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Zarephath (4 Occurrences)
... Smelting-shop, "a workshop for the refining and smelting of metals", a small Phoenician
town, now Surafend, about a mile from the coast, almost midway on the ...
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Ore (5 Occurrences)
... iron, lead, etc. Usually the ores contain the metals combined with oxygen,
sulphur, arsenic, etc. (called mineralizers). 3. (n.) A ...
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Ornament (23 Occurrences)
... But the term may be limited here to the various rings, bracelets and chains made
of precious metals and more or less jeweled (compare Jeremiah 2:32). ...
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Lighting (9 Occurrences)
... 2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Light. 3. (n.) A name sometimes applied to the process of
annealing metals. Multi-Version Concordance Lighting (9 Occurrences). ...
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Water (4571 Occurrences)
... Hence, of the first water, that is, of the first excellence. 6. (n.) A wavy, lustrous
pattern or decoration such as is imparted to linen, silk, metals, etc. ...
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Frost (9 Occurrences)
... 5. (vt) To injure by frost; to freeze, as plants. 6. (vt) To cover with hoarfrost;
to produce a surface resembling frost upon, as upon cake, metals, or glass. ...
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Founder (5 Occurrences)
... endows. 2. (n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster;
as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. 3 ...
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File (1 Occurrence)
... n.) A steel instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with
a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc ...
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Founding (4 Occurrences)
... & vb. n.) of Found. 2. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Found. 3. (n.) The art of smelting and
casting metals. Multi-Version Concordance Founding (4 Occurrences). ...
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Flux (26 Occurrences)
... fusion. 4. (n.) Any substance or mixture used to promote the fusion of metals
or minerals, as alkalis, borax, lime, fluorite. 5. (n ...
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Forge (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A place or establishment where iron or other metals are wrought by heating
and hammering; especially, a furnace, or a shop with its furnace, etc ...
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Furnace (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) An enclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as
for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery ...
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Tile (1 Occurrence)
... 4. (n.) A plate of metal used for roofing. 5. (n.) A small, flat piece of dried
earth or earthenware, used to cover vessels in which metals are fused. ...
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Tin (6 Occurrences)
... 22:18, 20. Ezekiel mentions tin along with silver, iron and lead as being
imported into Tyre from Tarshish (see METALS). The tin ...
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Tester (5 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Jeremiah 6:27 I have made you a tester of metals and a fortress among my
people; that you may know and try their way. (WEB BBE NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Transmit (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To suffer to pass through; as, glass transmits light; metals transmit, or
conduct, electricity. Multi-Version Concordance Transmit (2 Occurrences). ...
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Tongs (6 Occurrences)
... or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow,
used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a ...
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Refining (8 Occurrences)
... Figurative: In the various Bible references the refining of precious metals is used
figuratively to illustrate the kind of trial God's children are called upon ...
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Royalty (7 Occurrences)
... 6. (n.) That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined
at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of ...
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Reflect (6 Occurrences)
... turn to; to throw back; especially, to cause to return after striking upon any surface;
as, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. ...
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Reduce (13 Occurrences)
... remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of,
hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced ...
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Ring (33 Occurrences)
... rings with his fame. 9. (n.) A sound; especially, the sound of vibrating
metals; as, the ring of a bell. 10. (n.) Any loud sound ...
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Refractory (7 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Resisting ordinary treatment; difficult of fusion, reduction, or the like; --
said especially of metals and the like, which do not readily yield to heat ...
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Refinement (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The act of refining, or the state of being
refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. ...
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Essay (1 Occurrence)
... to try. 5. (n.) To test the value and purity of (metals); to assay. See
Assay. Multi-Version Concordance Essay (1 Occurrence). Job ...
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Endure (90 Occurrences)
... 3. (vt) To remain firm under; to sustain; to undergo; to support without breaking
or yielding; as, metals endure a certain degree of heat without melting; to ...
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Expand (3 Occurrences)
... 4. (vi) To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged;
as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with ...
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Diana (5 Occurrences)
... Later when she was represented in stone and metals, she bore upon her head a mural
headdress, representing a fortitled city wall; from it, drapery hung upon ...
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Drift (1 Occurrence)
... 24. (vi) to make a drift; to examine a vein or ledge for the purpose of ascertaining
the presence of metals or ores; to follow a vein; to prospect. 25. ...
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Die (401 Occurrences)
... to give a certain desired form to, or impress any desired device on, an object or
surface, by pressure or by a blow; used in forging metals, coining, striking ...
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Drawing (60 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in
forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them ...
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Metal-tester's (1 Occurrence)
Metal-tester's. << Metals, Metal-tester's. Metalworker >>. Multi-Version Concordance ...
(BBE). << Metals, Metal-tester's. Metalworker >>. Reference Bible.
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Pile (16 Occurrences)
... (n.) A large building, or mass of buildings. 11. (n.) Same as Fagot, n., 2. 12.
(n.) A vertical series of alternate disks of two dissimilar metals, as copper ...
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Purity (16 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The condition of being pure. 2. (n.) freedom from foreign admixture or
deleterious matter; as, the purity of water, of wine, of drugs, of metals. ...
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Purify (39 Occurrences)
... make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free
from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify ...
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Plate (34 Occurrences)
... 14. (vt) To cover or overlay with gold, silver, or other metals, either by a mechanical
process, as hammering, or by a chemical process, as electrotyping. 15. ...
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Purification (25 Occurrences)
... of separating and removing from anything that which is impure or noxious, or
heterogeneous or foreign to it; as, the purification of liquors, or of metals. ...
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Polish (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (vt) To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread
with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc. ...
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Bronze (146 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An alloy of copper and tin, to which small
proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. ...
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Brass (168 Occurrences)
... zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals. 2. (n.) A journal
bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. ...
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Base (127 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) Illegitimate by birth; bastard. 5. (a.) of little comparative value,
as metal inferior to gold and silver, the precious metals. ...
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Boss
... 5. (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end,
where it is coupled to another. 6. (n.) A swage or die used for shaping metals. ...
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Blue (51 Occurrences)
... 9. (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. 10. (vt) To make blue; to
dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc. Int. ...
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Couple (19 Occurrences)
... 4. (a.) See Couple-close. 5. (a.) One of the pairs of plates of two metals which
compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple. ...
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Current (4 Occurrences)
... Genesis 23:16 implies the existence of a standard shekel and also probably the use
of the precious metals in stamped bars or ingots of an approximately fixed ...
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Coral (3 Occurrences)
... topaz." While the real meaning of some of these terms is doubtful (see STONES,
PRECIOUS), they all, including ra'moth, appear to be precious stones or metals. ...
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Anvil (1 Occurrence)
... 41:7. Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel
face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped. 2. (n ...
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Assaying (1 Occurrence)
... 2. (n.) The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and
ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Ax (12 Occurrences)
... bronze. See METALS. (5) maghzirah (2 Samuel 12:31) is literally, "a cutting
instrument," and might be rendered, "a blade" or sickle. ...
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Axe (19 Occurrences)
... bronze. See METALS. (5) maghzirah (2 Samuel 12:31) is literally, "a cutting
instrument," and might be rendered, "a blade" or sickle. ...
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Artemis (5 Occurrences)
... Later when she was represented in stone and metals, she bore upon her head a mural
headdress, representing a fortitled city wall; from it, drapery hung upon ...
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Axhead (1 Occurrence)
... bronze. See METALS. (5) maghzirah (2 Samuel 12:31) is literally, "a cutting
instrument," and might be rendered, "a blade" or sickle. ...
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Allay
... 4. (n.) Alleviation; abatement; check. 5. (n.) Alloy. 6. (vt) To mix (metals);
to mix with a baser metal; to alloy; to deteriorate. Int. ...
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Ax-head
... bronze. See METALS. (5) maghzirah (2 Samuel 12:31) is literally, "a cutting
instrument," and might be rendered, "a blade" or sickle. ...
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Aryan
... Her statues were often of the precious metals, and among her many names were "Golden
Mother" and "Goddess of the Golden Image." Hence to the present day the ...
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Smith (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary. 1. (n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works
in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. ...
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Silver (329 Occurrences)
... 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. ...
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Scale (38 Occurrences)
... boiler. 11. (n.) The thin oxide which forms on the surface of iron forgings.
Also, a similar coating upon other metals. 12. (vt) To ...
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Scum (4 Occurrences)
... or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or
which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a ...
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Sweep (34 Occurrences)
... 25. (n.) The sweeping of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing
filings, etc. Multi-Version Concordance Sweep (34 Occurrences). ...
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Simplicity (12 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) The quality or state of being simple, unmixed,
or uncompounded; as, the simplicity of metals or of earths. ...
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