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Beryl
noun · 78% connection
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Camera obscura
unknown · 78% connection
An apparatus in which the image of an external object or objects is, by means of lenses, thrown upon a sensitized plate or surface pla…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Captain
noun · 78% connection
The military officer who commands a company, troop, or battery, or who has the rank entitling him to do so though he may be employed o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Chrysolite
noun · 78% connection
A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Crocus
noun · 78% connection
A deep yellow powder; the oxide of some metal calcined to a red or deep yellow color; esp., the oxide of iron (Crocus of Mars or colco…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Diachylum
noun · 78% connection
A plaster originally composed of the juices of several plants (whence its name), but now made of an oxide of lead and oil, and consist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Dog days
unknown · 78% connection
A period of from four to six weeks, in the summer, variously placed by almanac makers between the early part of July and the early par…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Early
adverb · 78% connection
In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early b…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Eros
noun · 78% connection
Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Glass
verb · 78% connection
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Grace
noun · 78% connection
Graceful and beautiful females, sister goddesses, represented by ancient writers as the attendants sometimes of Apollo but oftener of…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Iron
noun · 78% connection
The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Krems
noun · 78% connection
A variety of white lead. See Krems lead, under Lead, n.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Lead
noun · 78% connection
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Litharge
noun · 78% connection
Lead monoxide; a yellowish red substance, obtained as an amorphous powder, or crystallized in fine scales, by heating lead moderately…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Manganite
noun · 78% connection
A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Massicot
noun · 78% connection
Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
Masticot
noun · 78% connection
Massicot.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: variously, employed, early, writers, though.
