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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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 Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff 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
"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
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