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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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
So Quick-silver, which will very hardly be brought to stick to any vegetable body, will readily adhere to, and mingle with, several clean metalline bodies.
From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke
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
The life of metals is a secret fatness; of salts, the spirit of aqua fortis; of pearls, their splendour; of marcasites and antimony, a tingeing metalline spirit; of arsenics, a mineral and coagulated poison.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison) Muir
"Yet he has spelled chappelling, bordeller, medallist, metalline, metallist, metallize, clavellated, &c. with ll, contrary to his rule."
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown
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