Word Meanings - FOWLERITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
Related words: (words related to FOWLERITE)
- JERSEY
1. The finest of wool separated from the rest; combed wool; also, fine yarn of wool. 2. A kind of knitted jacket; hence, in general, a closefitting jacket or upper garment made of an elastic fabric . 3. One of a breed of cattle in the Island of - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - CONTAINANT
A container. - FRANKLIN
An English freeholder, or substantial householder. Chaucer. The franklin, a small landholder of those days. Sir J. Stephen. - FRANKLIN STOVE
. A kind of open stove introduced by Benjamin Franklin, the peculiar feature of which was that a current of heated air was directly supplied to the room from an air box; -- now applied to other varieties of open stoves. - RHODONITE
Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - CONTAINER
One who, or that which, contains. - FRANKLINITE
A kind of mineral of the spinel group. - FURNACE
1. An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc. Note: - VARIETY
1. The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness. Variety is nothing else but a continued novelty. South. The variety of colors depends upon the composition of light. - FRANKLINIC
Of or pertaining to Benjamin Franklin. Franklinic electricity, electricity produced by friction; called also statical electricity. - CONTAIN
1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores - 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. - PERNOT FURNACE
A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel. - ASH-FURNACE; ASH-OVEN
A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making. - SUBVARIETY
A subordinate variety, or a division of a variety. - ALMOND FURNACE
A kind of furnace used in refining, to separate the metal from cinders and other foreign matter. Chambers.