Word Meanings - COPPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.

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• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• COPPER-FACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• COPPERWORM
  The teredo; -- so called because it injures the bottoms of vessels, where not protected by copper. The ringworm.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• COPPER WORKS
  A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.
• COPPERISH
  Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste.
• COPPERHEAD
  A poisonous American serpent , closely allied to the rattlesnake, but without rattles; -- called also copper-belly, and red viper. 2. A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War.
• COPPERPLATE
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved. An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper
• COPPERAS
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• MIXER
  One who, or that which, mixes.
• COPPER-BOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• MIX
  mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. Mixture), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of
• COPPERY
  Mixed with copper; containing copper, or made of copper; like copper.
• MIXEN
  A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.
• MIXTION
  1. Mixture. 2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• CHESSY COPPER
  The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite.
• IMMIX
  To mix; to mingle. Amongst her tears immixing prayers meek. Spenser.
• COMMIX
  To mix or mingle together; to blend. The commixed impressions of all the colors do stir up and beget a sensation of white. Sir I. Newton. To commix With winds that sailors rail at. Shak.
• INTERMIXTURE
  1. A mass formed by mixture; a mass of ingredients mixed. Boyle. 2. Admixture; an additional ingredient. In this height of impiety there wanted not an intermixture of levity and folly. Bacon.
• INTERMIXEDLY
  In a mixed manner.