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metalline, a.|ˈmɛtəlaɪn|
Also 6 mettalline, mettalyne, metallyen, 6–7 mettaline, 6–8 metaline, 7 metallin.
[ad. F. métallin, f. métal metal n.: see -ine1.]
1. = metallic 1.
1471Ripley Comp. Alch. Ep. iii. in Ashm. Theat. Chem. Brit. (1652) 111 Bodies..Minerall and Mettaline. 1555Eden Decades 334 This metalline body that we caule golde. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 7 b, Emplasters be medicynes whyche take into their composition, dyuers kyndes of symples, but chefelye metallyen bodyes and these are..to be boyled together. 1592Chettle Kinde-harts Dr. (1841) 25, I muse not a little what wonderfull mettaline preparatiue it is ye boast on. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 272 Mines, Mettaline and Minerall. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. xii. ix. (1678) 298 Adding to the former Ointments Metalline Powders. 1781Hornblower in J. Nicholson Operat. Mechanic (1825) 182, I condense the steam, by causing it to pass in contact with metalline surfaces. 1804Edin. Rev. IV. 139 The metalline salts. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 132 Various metalline emetics. 1855Brewster Newton I. iii. 49 Without separating the sulphureous from the metalline part of that mixture.
b. Impregnated with metallic substances. Also, of vapours, arising from or produced by metals.
1626Bacon Sylva §84 Smiths water or other Metalline water. Ibid. §918 Those that deale much in Refining..have their Braines Hurt and Stupefied by the Metalline Vapours. 1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 3. (1865) 270 Physicians..send them to the mineral or metalline baths. 1719Hauksbee Phys.-Mech. Exp. (ed. 2) Supp. 285 Damps, or Steems..impregnated with Metalline Effluvia. 1890Syd. Soc. Lex., Metalline waters = mineral waters.
c. Made of metal.
1575Banister Chyrurg. ii. (1585) 275 By mettalline instrumentes, and manuall operation. 1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 111 A combustible liquor, which the man..carries..in a metalline bottle. 1731P. Shaw Three Ess. Artif. Philos. 41 The Art of Printing on Paper, with Metalline Types. 1778R. Lowth Isaiah Notes 68 A metalline mirror.
2. Resembling metal in appearance, lustre, etc.
1596Raleigh Discov. Guiana 58 The rocks of a blew mettaline colour, like vnto the best steele ore. 1664Evelyn Sylva (1679) 25 [A kind of oak] seeming to partake of a ferruginous, and metallin shining nature. 1822Latham Gen. Hist. Birds III. 301 Metalline Cuckow... Inhabits Africa. [Cf. metallic a. 3.] 1831Brewster Optics xx. 179 A plate of a highly refractive metalline glass.
3. Yielding or producing metals, metalliferous. Cf. metallic a. 4.
1620Venner Via Recta 8 [Springs] which rise from sulphurous, bituminous, or metalline places. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v. Gold, They first break the metalline stone with iron mallets. |