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• Metal

  ·noun The rails of a railroad. II. Metal ·noun Glass in a state of fusion. III. Metal ·noun A mine...

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• metal

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• Aich's metal

  ·- A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin. ...

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• Babbitt metal

  ·- A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty ...

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• Bell metal

  ·- A hard alloy or bronze, consisting usually of about three parts of copper to one of tin; — used ...

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• Blond metal

  ·- A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools. ...

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• Kingston metal

  ·- An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. ...

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• Mitis metal

  ·add. ·- The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; — called also simply mitis. ...

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• Muntz metal

  ·- ·see under <<Metal>>. ...

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• Tula metal

  ·- An alloy of silver, copper, and lead made at Tula in Russia. ...

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• mix metal

  A silversmith. ...

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• gun-metal

  The alloy from which brass guns are cast consists of 100 parts of copper to 10 of tin, retaining muc...

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• heavy metal

  , or heavy ordnance. Ordnance of large calibre. ...

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• under metal

  The condition of a gun when the muzzle is depressed, and the metal, i.e. the breech, raised; the pro...

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• weight of metal

  The weight of iron which the whole of the guns are capable of projecting at one round from both side...

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• Robin-wood's Court, Shoe Lane

  See Robin Hood Court. ...

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• broadside weight of metal

  The weight of iron which the guns of a ship can project, when single-shotted, from one side. (See we...

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• line-of-metal elevation

  That which the axis of a gun has above the object when its line of metal is pointed on the latter; i...

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• raise the metal to

  To elevate the breech, and depress thereby the muzzle of a gun. ...

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• not born in the woods to be scared by an owl

  Too much used to danger, or threats, to be easily frightened. I just puts my finger to my nose, and...

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