Word Meanings - ELECTRIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

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• RESINIFORM
  Having the form of resin.
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• RESIN
  Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, and essential oils, but not in water; specif., pine resin
• RESINOUSNESS
  The quality of being resinous.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• RESINOUS
  Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity , electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.
• AMBERGRIS
  A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true
• AMBER
  1. Consisting of amber; made of amber. "Amber bracelets." Shak. 2. Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored. "The amber morn." Tennyson.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• RESINATE
  Any one of the salts the resinic acids.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• GLASS-SPONGE
  A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
• EMPLOYER
  One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
• AMBER TREE
  A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.
• RESINOID
  Somewhat like resin.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• CHAMBERING
  Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• CHAMBERER
  1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger.
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• OLEORESIN
  A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.
• CHAMBERED
  Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun.
• INCHAMBER
  To lodge in a chamber. Sherwood.
• KAURI RESIN; KAURI GUM; KAURI COPAL
  A resinous product of the kauri, found in the form of yellow or brown lumps in the ground where the trees have grown. It is used for making varnish, and as a substitute for amber.