adjective
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of, resembling, or relating to metals
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containing metals or metal ions
Etymology
Origin of metalline
1425–75; late Middle English metalline < Medieval Latin metallīnus of metal. See metal, -ine 1
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My cheeks were of that metalline description that never knew a blush, before an audience of one or many.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
This dissolves in alkalies, and combines with metalline bases to form various coloured compounds, termed Purpurates.
From Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists by Thomas Salter
A wheel set in motion on an almost frictionless bearing of metalline, runs without perceptible abatement of velocity, until one begins to involuntarily question whether it will ever stop.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 388, June 9, 1883 by Various
This hinders the metalline particles from adhering perfectly, and makes mistakes in the trials.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The fundamental principle of alchemy was the natural process of development of metalline bodies.
From History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science by John William Draper
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