Me*tal"lic*ly (?), adv. In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
Me*tal`li*fac"ture (?; 135), n. [L. metallum metal + facere, factum, to
make.] The production and working or manufacture of metals. [R.] R.
Park.
Met`al*lif"er*ous (?), a. [L. metallifer; metallum metal + ferre to
bear: cf. F. métallifère.] Producing metals; yielding metals.
Me*tal"li*form (?), a. [L. metallum metal + -form: cf. F.
métalliforme.] Having the form or structure of a metal.
Met"al*line (?), a. [Cf. F. métallin.] (Chem.) (a) Pertaining to, or
resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties. (b)
Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]
Met"al*line (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A substance of variable composition,
but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of
machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
Met"al*list (?), n. A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.
Met`al*li*za"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. métallisation.] The act or process of
metallizing. [R.]
Met"al*lize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Metallized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Metallizing (?).] [Cf. F. métalliser.] To impart metallic properties
to; to impregnate with a metal. [R.]
Me*tal"lo*chrome (?), n. [See Metallochromy.] A coloring produced by
the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic
tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished
steel by electricity.
Me*tal"lo*chro`my (?), n. [L. metallum metal + Gr. &?; color.] The art
or process of coloring metals.
Me*tal"lo*graph (?), n. [L. metallum metal + -graph.] A print made by
metallography.
Me*tal`lo*graph"ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or by means of,
metallography.
Met`al*log"ra*phist (?), n. One who writes on the subject of metals.
Met`al*log"ra*phy (?), n. [L. metallum metal + -graphy: cf. F.
métallographie.] 1. The science or art of metals and metal working;
also, a treatise on metals.
2. A method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to
metallic surfaces by chemical action. Knight.
3. A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used
instead of stone. Knight.
Met"al*loid (?), n. [L. metallum metal + -oid: cf. F. métalloïde.] (a)
Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; --
applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic
substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well
defined. (b) Now, one of several elementary substances which in the
free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce
acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon,
phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are
metalloids.
Met"al*loid, a. 1. Having the appearance of a metal.
2. (Chem.) Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid;
negative.
Met`al*loid"al (?), a. Metalloid.
Met`al*lor*gan"ic (?), a. Metalorganic.
Me*tal`lo*ther"a*py (?), n. [L. metallum metal + E. therapy.] (Med.)
Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the
body.
{ Met`al*lur"gic (?), Met`al*lur"gic*al (?), } a. [Cf. F.
métallurgique.] Of or pertaining to metallurgy.
Met"al*lur`gist (?), n. [Cf. F. métallurgiste.] One who works in
metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.
Met"al*lur`gy (?), n. [F. métallurgie, fr. L. metallum metal, Gr. &?; a
mine + the root of &?; work. See Metal, and Work.] The art of working
metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other
matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in
a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their
ores.
Met"al*man (?), n.; pl. Metalmen (&?;). A worker in metals.
Met`a*log"ic*al (?), a. Beyond the scope or province of logic.
Met`al*or*gan"ic (?), a. [Metal, L. metallum + E. organic.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain
metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl,
etc. [Written also metallorganic.]
Met"a*mer (?), n. [See Metamere.] (Chem.) Any one of several metameric
forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same
composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene,
metaxylene, and paraxylene.
Met"a*mere (?), n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.] (Biol.) One of successive or
homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar
parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as
in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.
Met`a*mer"ic (?), a. [Pref. meta- + Gr. &?; part.] 1. (Chem.) Having
the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the
same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and
different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric
compounds. See Isomeric.
The existence of metameric compounds is due to the different
arrangement of the same constituents in the molecule.
2. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as,
metameric segmentation.
Met`a*mer"ic*al*ly, adv. In a metameric manner.
Me*tam"er*ism (?), n. 1. (Biol.) The symmetry of a metameric structure;
serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
2. (Chem.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation
or condition of metameric compounds.
Met`a*mor"phic (?), a. [See Metamorphosis.] 1. Subject to change;
changeable; variable.