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One of the well-known metals, nearly approaching silver in whiteness and lustre, highly malleable and taking a high polish; used in the…
Alchemy. A name for the metal tin. Obsolete.
Alchemy. Tin. Cf. Jupiter, n. 2b.
The metal tin (tin, n. 1a). Now historical and rare.
The chemical Latin name for tin. (Hence the symbol Sn.)