Meaning of unmetallic | Babel Free

Definitions

Not metallic.

not-comparable

Examples

“The light⟳ duſky blew concretes as well as the green, called by ſome Copper okers, yield⟳ a great deal⟳ of very good Copper when they are pure, which may be known from their colour and weight ; but thoſe that are more light⟳ are mixed with unmetallick earth, and thoſe that are yellow, containing iron⟳ oker ; on which account they are the more difficult to be met with, and yield⟳ leſs Copper of an inferior ſort.”

“The acid, now impregnated with a new matter⟳, paſſes on ; till meeting with ſome other convenient nidus, it lodges in that, and thereby acquires a freſh impregnation, perhaps at laſt totally unmetallick ; or, for want⟳ of meeting with a proper nidus, appears at the ſurface, weakly or ſtrongly tinctured with thoſe principles it had laſt imbibed.”

“The robot bowed. “Thank⟳ you, gentlemen,” it said, in sweet, unmetallic accents. “Now if you will please⟳ escort me to the meeting place⟳ …””

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