Word Meanings - MASLIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A mixture composed of different materials; especially: A mixture of metals resembling brass. 2. A vessel made of maslin, 1 . Mead eke in a maselyn. Chaucer.

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• COMPOSITOUS
  Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin.
• DIFFERENTIALLY
  In the way of differentiation.
• BRASS-VISAGED
  Impudent; bold.
• BRASS
  A journal bearing, so called because frequently made of brass. A brass is often lined with a softer metal, when the latter is generally called a white metal lining. See Axle box, Journal Box, and Bearing. 3. Coin made of copper, brass, or bronze.
• DIFFERENTLY
  In a different manner; variously.
• COMPOSURE
  1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles.
• COMPOSSIBLE
  Able to exist with another thing; consistent. Chillingworth.
• COMPOSE
  To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
• DIFFERENT
  1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
• COMPOSER
  1. One who composes; an author. Specifically, an author of a piece of music. If the thoughts of such authors have nothing in them, they at least . . . show an honest industry and a good intention in the composer. Addison. His most brilliant and
• BRASSICACEOUS
  Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.
• BRASSY
  1. Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass. 2. Impudent; impudently bold.
• COMPOSITE
  Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Italic order, and is one of the five orders recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. See Capital.
• BRASSINESS
  The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy.
• COMPOSTURE
  Manure; compost. Shak.
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• COMPOSITAE
  A large family of dicotyledonous plants, having their flowers arranged in dense heads of many small florets and their anthers united in a tube. The daisy, dandelion, and asters, are examples.
• BRASSIERE
  A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.
• MASLIN
  1. A mixture composed of different materials; especially: A mixture of metals resembling brass. 2. A vessel made of maslin, 1 . Mead eke in a maselyn. Chaucer.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• 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.
• DECOMPOSE
  To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
• INDIFFERENTLY
  In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral