1. One that takes a side or joins a party.
2. Cider. [Not in use.]
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. Relating to the stars.
2. Affecting unfavorably by the supposed influence of the stars; baleful.
Blasted; planet-struck.
Planet-struck; blasted.
2. A sphacelus, or a species of erysipelas, vulgarly called a blast.
1. SID'ERAL, SIDE'REAL, adjective [Latin sideralis, from sidus, a star.]
3. Containing stars; starry; as SIDEREAL regions. SIDEREAL year, in astronomy, the period in which the fixed stars apparently complete a revolution and come to the same point in the heavens.
2. Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day.
To elevate to the stars, or to the region of the stars; to etherealize.
2. In mineralogy, a phosphate of iron.
1. Carbonate of iron, an important ore of iron occuring generally in cleavable masses, but also in rhombohedral crystals. It is of a light yellowish brown color. Called also sparry iron, spathic iron.
2. A meteorite consisting solely of metallic iron.
3. An indigo-blue variety of quartz.
4. Formerly, magnetic iron ore, or loadstone.
5. Any plant of the genus Sideritis; ironwort.
Brown spar.
A mineral of a yellowish green color, soft and translucid, occurring in reniform or botryoidal masses.
Pertaining to siderography, or performed by engraved plates of steel; as siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
Alt. of Siderographical
Of or pertaining to siderography; executed by engraved plates of steel; as, siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
One who engraves steel plates, or performs work by means of such plates.
One skilled in siderography.
SIDEROGRAPH'CH, SIDEROGRAPH'OCAL, adjective [ See Siderography .] Pertaining to siderography, or performed by engraved plates of steel; as siderographic art; siderographic impressions.
and The art or practice of engraving on steel, by means of which, impressions may be transferred from a steel plate to a steel cylinder in a rolling press of a particular construction.
The art or practice of steel engraving; especially, the process, invented by Perkins, of multiplying facsimiles of an engraved steel plate by first rolling over it, when hardened, a soft steel cylinder, and then rolling the cylinder, when hardened, over a soft steel plate, which thus becomes a facsimile of the original. The process has been superseded by electrotypy.
Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
An instrument for detecting small quantities of iron in any substance by means of a very delicate combination of magnetic needles.
A sort of pneumonia occuring in iron workers, produced by the inhalation of particles of iron.
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