capilloseadj.n.
A. adj.
Full of hair, hairy. (In modern dictionaries.)
B. n.
Categories »
Mineralogy. A synonym (in Chapman 1843) for Millerite or sulphide of nickel, also called capillary pyrites. (Dana Min. 57.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
<
adj.n.1888- to set teeth on edge
- to set the agenda
- to set the ball rolling
- to set the bar
- to set the case
- to set the clock back
- to set the dice upon
- to set the edge of
- to set the etc a watering
- to set the eyes at flow
- to set the fine of
- to set the hare's head against the goose-giblet
- to set the hare's head against the goosegiblet
- to set the hare's head foot against the goose-giblet
- to set the hare's head foot against the goosegiblet
- to set the hare's head hare-pie against the goose-giblet
- to set the hare's head harepie against the goosegiblet
- to set the heather on fire
- to set the kiln on fire
- to set the kiln on fire sc a-low
- to set the kiln on fire sc alow
- to set the land
- to set the mouth a watering
- to set the pace
- to set the record straight