Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate or lamin.
2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver, etc.; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.
1. Spread or covered with a thin plate or foil.
2. In mineralogy, consisting of plates; resembling or in the form of a plate; lamellar; as a foliated fracture.
3. Minerals that consist of grains, and are at the same time foliated are called granularly foliated
1. Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
2. Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
3. Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
4. Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
5. Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
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