Word Meanings - JASPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

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• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.
• JASPERATED
  mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
• JASPERY
  Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.
• MIXTLY
  With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
• NATURED
  Having a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.
• MIXER
  One who, or that which, mixes.
• NATURELESS
  Not in accordance with nature; unnatural. Milton.
• 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
• JASPER
  An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking with a smooth surface. It admits of a high polish, and is used for vases, seals, snuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped
• 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.
• MIXTURE
  A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved. (more info) 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a
• JASPERIZE
  To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.
• NATURE
  1. The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe. But looks through nature up to nature's God. Pope. Nature has caprices which art can not imitate. Macaulay. 2. The personified sum and order
• MIXOGAMOUS
  Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
• MIXABLE
  Capable of being mixed.
• MIXOLYDIAN MODE
  The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.
• MIXTILINEAL; MIXTILINEAR
  Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
• MIXED
  Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i. Mixed action , a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action. -- Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle. -- Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds
• 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.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• PERMIX
  To mix; to mingle.
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• PERMIXTION
  See PERMISSION
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.
• 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.
• DENATURE
  To deprive of its natural qualities; change the nature of.
• SIGNATURE
  An outward mark by which internal characteristics were supposed to be indicated. Some plants bear a very evident signature of their nature and use. Dr. H. More. (more info) 1. A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal. The brain, being well
• DISNATURED
  Deprived or destitute of natural feelings; unnatural. 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.