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
Example Sentences
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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 Salter, Thomas
Fourthly, That most kind of Vitrifications or Calcinations are made by Salts, uniting and incorporating with the metalline Particles.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert
There is a substance of a metalline species which looks so cloudy that the universe will have nothing to do with it.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
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
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
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