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| Gold-beating |
The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. |
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| Beating |
of Beat |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
| Beating |
The act of striking or giving blows; punishment or chastisement by blows. |
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| Beating |
Pulsation; throbbing; as, the beating of the heart. |
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| Beating |
Pulsative sounds. See Beat, n. |
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| Beating |
The process of sailing against the wind by tacks in zigzag direction. |
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| Gold |
Alt. of Goolde |
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| Gold |
A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7. |
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| Gold |
Money; riches; wealth. |
v. t. |
| Gold |
A yellow color, like that of the metal; as, a flower tipped with gold. |
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| Gold |
Figuratively, something precious or pure; as, hearts of gold. |
v. t. |
| Gold-beaten |
Gilded. |
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| Gold-bound |
Encompassed with gold. |
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| Gold-hammer |
The yellow-hammer. |
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| Mannheim gold |
A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. |
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