Word Meanings - BERYLLIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• METALLIC
  Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
• BERYLLOID
  A solid consisting of a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• METALLICLY
  In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
• METALLICAL
  See METALLIC
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• BERYL
  A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum . The aquamarine
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• BERYLLIUM
  A metallic element found in the beryl. See Glucinum.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• MONOMETALLIC
  Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
• BIMETALLIC
  Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (as gold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.
• CHRYSOBERYL
  A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.