Ankerite (n.) A mineral closely related to dolomite, but containing iron. |
Bar iron () See under Iron. |
Bitter spar () A common name of dolomite |
Box-iron (n.) A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within. |
Branding iron () An iron to brand with. |
Brand iron () A branding iron. |
Brand iron () A trivet to set a pot on. |
Brand iron () The horizontal bar of an andiron. |
Bridle iron () A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had |
Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. |
Brown (n.) A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown or dusky. |
Brown (v. t.) To make brown by scorching slightly |
Brown (v. t.) To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface. |
Brown (v. i.) To become brown. |
Brown bill () A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. |
Brown thrush () A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird |
Calc-spar (n.) Same as Calcite. |
Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace |
Cast-iron (a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron |
Cramp iron () See Cramp, n., 2. |
Derbyshire spar () A massive variety of fluor spar, found in Derbyshire, England, and wrought into vases and other ornamental work. |
Dolomite (n.) A mineral consisting of the carbonate of lime and magnesia in varying proportions. It occurs in distinct crystals, and in extensive beds as a compact limestone, often crystalline granular, either white or clouded. It includes much of the common white marble. Also called bitter spar. |
Fluor spar () See Fluorite. |
Grozing iron () A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass. |
Grozing iron () A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. |
Hair-brown (a.) Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green. |
Harping iron () A harpoon. |
Heavy spar () Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals. |
Iceland spar () A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite. |
Iron (n.) The most common and most useful metallic element, being of almost universal occurrence, usually in the form of an oxide (as hematite, magnetite, etc.), or a hydrous oxide (as limonite, turgite, etc.). It is reduced on an enormous scale in three principal forms |
Iron (n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron |
Iron (n.) Fetters |
Iron (n.) Strength |
Iron (n.) Of, or made of iron |
Iron (n.) Resembling iron in color |
Iron (n.) Like iron in hardness, strength, impenetrability, power of endurance, insensibility, etc. |
Iron (n.) Rude |
Iron (n.) Firm |
Iron (n.) Inflexible |
Iron (n.) Not to be broken |
Iron (v. t.) To smooth with an instrument of iron |
Iron (v. t.) To shackle with irons |
Iron (v. t.) To furnish or arm with iron |
Iron-cased (a.) Cased or covered with iron, as a vessel |
Iron-fisted (a.) Closefisted |
Iron-gray (a.) Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshly broken. |
Iron-gray (n.) An iron-gray color |
Iron-hearted (a.) Hard-hearted |
Iron-sick (a.) Having the ironwork loose or corroded |
spar sparring | making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms, a part of training for a boxer |
brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
brown thrasher brown thrush Toxostoma rufums | common large songbird of eastern United States having reddish-brown plumage |
brown creeper American creeper Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
brown snail Helix aspersa | serious garden pest having a brown shell with paler zigzag markings, nearly cosmopolitan in distribution |
brown hyena strand wolf Hyaena brunnea | of southern Africa |
brown bear bruin Ursus arctos | large ferocious bear of Eurasia |
Alaskan brown bear Kodiak bear Kodiak Ursus middendorffi Ursus arctos middendorffi | brown bear of coastal Alaska and British Columbia |
brown bat | any of numerous medium to small insectivorous bats found worldwide in caves and trees and buildings |
little brown bat little brown myotis Myotis leucifugus | the small common North American bat, widely distributed |
big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus | rather large North American brown bat, widely distributed |
serotine European brown bat Eptesicus serotinus | common brown bat of Europe |
brown soft scale Coccus hesperidum | pest on citrus trees |
brown lacewing hemerobiid hemerobiid fly | small darkolored lacewing fly |
browntail brown-tail moth Euproctis phaeorrhoea | small brown and white European moth introduced into eastern United States, pest of various shade and fruit trees |
brown rat Norway rat Rattus norvegicus | common domestic rat, serious pest worldwide |
brown lemming Lemmus trimucronatus | of northwestern Canada and Alaska |
Brown Swiss | large hardy brown breed of dairy cattle from Switzerland |
brown bullhead | freshwater catfish of eastern United States |
brown trout salmon trout Salmo trutta | speckled trout of European rivers, introduced in North America |
andiron firedog dog dog-iron | metal supports for logs in a fireplace, the andirons were too hot to touch |
angle bracket angle iron | an L-shaped metal bracket |
boot the boot iron boot iron heel | an instrument of torture that is used to heat or crush the foot and leg |
Brown University Brown | a university in Rhode Island |
corrugated iron | usually galvanized sheet iron or sheet steel shaped into straight parallel ridges and hollows |
cramp cramp iron | a strip of metal with ends bent at right angles, used to hold masonry together |
crampon crampoon climbing iron climber | an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing |
curling iron | a cylindrical metal home appliance that heats a lock of hair that has been curled around it |
driving iron one iron | (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face |
fire iron | metal fireside implements |
garrote garotte garrotte iron collar | an instrument of execution for execution by strangulation |
goffer gauffer goffering iron gauffering iron | an iron used to press pleats and ridges |
grapnel grapple grappler grappling hook grappling iron | a tool consisting of several hooks for grasping and holding, often thrown with a rope |
iron smoothing iron | home appliance consisting of a flat metal base that is heated and used to smooth cloth |
iron | a golf club that has a relatively narrow metal head |
iron branding iron | implement used to brand live stock |
iron foundry | a foundry where cast iron is produced |
iron horse | (c. ) an early term for a locomotive |
iron lung | respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration |
iron maiden | instrument of torture consisting of a hollow iron frame shaped like the human body and lined with spikes to impale the victim |
long iron | an iron with a long shaft and a steep face, for hitting long low shots |
mashie five iron | middle-distance iron |
mashie niblick seven iron | iron with a lofted face for hitting high shots to the green |
midiron two iron | long iron with a nearly vertical face |
niblick nine iron | an iron with considerable loft |
nickel-iron battery nickel-iron accumulator | a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide, each cell gives about . volts |
pistol handgun side arm shooting iron | a firearm that is held and fired with one hand |
plate iron | a plate of iron |
putter putting iron | the iron normally used on the putting green |
searing iron | a hot iron used to destroy tissue |