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<p><b>9.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The rails of a railroad.</def> <mark>[Eng.]</mark>

<cs><col>Base metal</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>any one of the metals, as iron, lead, etc., which are readily tarnished or oxidized, in contrast with the noble metals. In general, a metal of small value, as compared with gold or silver.</cd> -- <col>Fusible metal</col> <fld>(Metal.)</fld>, <cd>a very fusible alloy, usually consisting of bismuth with lead, tin, or cadmium.</cd> -- <col>Heavy metals</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>the metallic elements not included in the groups of the alkalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc.</cd> -- <col>Light metals</col> <fld>(Chem.)</fld>, <cd>the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium.</cd> -- <col>Muntz metal</col>, <cd>an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a little lead is added. It is named from the inventor.</cd> -- <col>Prince's metal</col> <fld>(Old Chem.)</fld>, <cd>an alloy resembling brass, consisting of three parts of copper to one of zinc; -- also called <altname>Prince Rupert's metal</altname>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Metal</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met"al</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Metaled</er> <tt>(? &or; ?)</tt> or <er>Metalled</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Metaling</er> or <er>Metalling</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To cover with metal; <as>as, to <ex>metal</ex> a ship's bottom; to <ex>metal</ex> a road.</as></def>

<h1>Metalammonium</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`al*am*mo"ni*um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Metal</ets> + <ets>ammonium</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.</def>

<h1>Metalbumin</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`al*bu"min</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>met-</ets> + <ets>albumin</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physiol. Chem.)</fld> <def>A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.</def>

<h1>Metaldehyde</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Me*tal"de*hyde</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>met-</ets> + <ets>aldehyde</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.</def>

<h1>Metalepsis</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*lep"sis</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Metalepses</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[L., fr. Gr. <?/ participation, alteration, fr. <?/ to partake, to take in exchange; <?/ beyond + <?/ to take.]</ety> <fld>(Rhet.)</fld> <def>The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.</def>

<h1>Metalepsy</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met"a*lep`sy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Metaleptic</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*lep"tic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Transverse; <as>as, the <ex>metaleptic</ex> motion of a muscle</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy.</def>

<h1>Metaleptical</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Met`a*lep"tic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Metaleptic.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Metallic</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Me*tal"lic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>metallicus</ets>, fr. <ets>metallum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>m\'82tallique</ets>. See <er>Metal</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; <as>as, a <ex>metallic</ex> appearance; a <ex>metallic</ex> alloy.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.</def><-- conductive of electricity is now one of the most characteristic properties, and form cations by loss of electrons -->

<cs><col>Metallic iron</col>, <cd>iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic iron.</cd> -- <col>Metallic paper</col>, <cd>paper covered with a thin solution of lime, whiting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced.</cd> -- <col>Metallic tinking</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.</cd></cs>

<h1>Metallical</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Me*tal"lic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>See <er>Metallic</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Metallicly</h1> <Xpage=917>

<hw>Me*tal"lic*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a metallic manner; by metallic means.</def>