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Metal
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.
(2):
(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.
(3):
(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.
(4):
(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
(5):
(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.
(6):
(n.) The rails of a railroad.
(7):
(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.
(8):
(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
(9):
(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; - so called by miners.
(10):
(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Metal'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/metal.html. 1828.
