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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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 Hooke, Robert
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
"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 Brown, Goold
Its visible form is vile; it defiles metalline bodies, and no one can readily imagine that the pearly drink of bright Phœbus should spring from thence.
From The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by Muir, M. M. Pattison
The use of the blowpipe has been inferred from metalline remains discovered in sepulchral tumuli of the Mississippi valley.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 by Various
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