Lead

n.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

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Yakamilk

n.

See Trumpeter, 3 (a).

Nondescript

a.

Not hitherto described; novel; hence, odd; abnormal; unclassifiable.

Greening

n.

A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the Rhode Island greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh and its excellent keeping quality.

Gelatinate

v. t.

To convert into gelatin, or into a substance resembling jelly.

Godliness

n.

Careful observance of, or conformity to, the laws of God; the state or quality of being godly; piety.

Glove

n.

A boxing glove.

Nest

n.

The bed or receptacle prepared by a fowl for holding her eggs and for hatching and rearing her young.

Resumptive

a.

Taking back; resuming, or tending toward resumption; as, resumptive measures.

Rosarian

n.

A cultivator of roses.

Fillibeg

n.

A kilt. See Filibeg.

Resuscitating

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Resuscitate

Follicle

n.

A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.