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Bible Dictionaries
Alloy
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
(2):
(v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
(3):
(v. t.) To form a metallic compound.
(4):
(v. t.) Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
(5):
(v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
(6):
(v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
(7):
(v. t.) To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
(8):
(v. t.) To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Alloy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/alloy.html. 1828.
