Word Finder - lustre

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Shine, polish or sparkle.

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He polished the brass doorknob to a high luster.

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By extension, brilliance, attractiveness or splendor.

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After so many years in the same field, the job had lost its luster.

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Refinement, polish or quality.

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He spoke with all the lustre a seasoned enthusiast should have.

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A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, etc. generally of an ornamental character.

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A substance that imparts lustre to a surface, such as plumbago or a glaze.

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Lusterware.

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A fabric of wool and cotton with a lustrous surface, used for women's dresses.

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To gleam, have luster.

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To give luster, distinguish.

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To give a coating or other treatment to impart physical luster.

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A lustrum, quinquennium, a period of five years, originally the interval between Roman censuses.

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One who lusts.

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The way in which the surface of any particular type of mineral reflects light differently from other minerals, which is helpful in telling minerals apart.

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A glass ornament such as a prism or cut glass dangling beneath a chandelier; usually in clusters or festoons

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A chandelier, particularly one decorated with glass lustres

The Church added a lustre of a different kind.

The lustre is metallic and brilliant.

The densest anthracite is of ten of a semi-metallic lustre, resembling somewhat that of graphite.

The lustre is bright and metallic. In its external characters graphite is thus strikingly similar to molybdenite.

It is an ironblack, opaque mineral, with metallic lustre; hardness about 6, sp. gr.

William inherited the baleful lustre, without the substantial power, which his ancestors had given to the name of Orange.

The interior of the shell is remarkable for the absence of pearly lustre on its interior surface.

It has the characteristic appearance of pure silk - a brilliant soft white body with a pearly lustre - insoluble in water, alcohol and ether, but it dissolves freely in concentrated alkaline solutions, mineral acids, strong acetic acid and in ammoniacal solution of oxide of copper.

The liquid metals, when cooled down sufficiently, some at lower, others at higher, temperatures freeze into compact solids, endowed with the (relative) non-transparency and the lustre of their liquids.

It sublimes in thin plates of a dark colour and metallic lustre, and is soluble in solutions of the caustic alkalis.

Crystals of sulphur are transparent or translucent and highly refractive with strong birefringence; they have a resinous or slightly adamantine lustre, and present the characteristic sulphur-yellow colour.

The minute globular bodies have occasionally a sub-pearly lustre, and glassy rocks which possess this structure have been called perlites (q.v.).

Though part of the plumage in many sun-birds gleams with metallic lustre, they owe much of their beauty to feathers which are not lustrous, though almost as vivid,' and the most wonderful combination of the brightest colours - scarlet, purple, blue, green and yellow - is often seen in one and the same bird.

Iodine is a greyish-black shining solid, possessing a metallic lustre and having somewhat the appearance of graphite.

Boron dissolves in molten aluminium, and on cooling, transparent, almost colourless crystals are obtained, possessing a lustre, hardness and refractivity near that of the diamond.

Rhodes was again famous for its pottery in medieval times; this was a lustre ware at first imitated from Persian, though it afterwards developed into an independent style of fine colouring and rich variety of design.

The pronotum and elytra are often adorned with bright colours or metallic lustre, and marked with stripes or spots.

Crystals of azurite belong to the monoclinic system; they have a vitreous lustre and are translucent.

Others again, like Gasteracantha and Acrosoma, belonging to the Argyopidae, are armed with sharp and strong abdominal spines, and these spiders are hard-shelled like beetles and are spotted with black on a reddish or yellow ground, their spines shining with steel-blue lustre.

Their lustre is vitreous except when they contain many minute crystals; they are then velvety or even resinous in appearance.

A dull stony-looking rock results, the vitreous lustre having entirely disappeared, and in microscopic section this exhibits a cryptocrystalline structure, being made up of exceedingly minute grains principally of quartz and felspar.

For a few isolated purposes, however, it is desirable to use a glass which has not been touched upon either surface and thus preserves the lustre of its " fire polish " undiminished; this can be attained in crown-glass but not in sheet, since one side of the latter is always more or less marked by the rubber used in the process of flattening.

They are (at least practically) non-transparent; they reflect light in a peculiar manner, producing what is called "metallic lustre."

Properties Zinc is a bluish-white metal, showing a high lustre when freshly fractured.

The tetraiodide, TiI 4, is a reddish brown mass having a metallic lustre.

But after proper treatmenti the former develops a glossy black patina with violet sheen, and the latter shows beautiful shades of grey with silvery lustre.

The staple type has black glaze showing little lustre, and in choice varieties this is curiously speckled and pitted with red.

Bright, glance or pitch coal is another brilliant variety, brittle, and breaking into regular fragments of a black colour and pitchy lustre.

The best varieties are black and pitchy in lustre, or even bright and scarcely to be distinguished from true coals.

The colour of the mineral is silver-white or steel-grey, with a metallic lustre, but it is often tarnished yellow; the streak is greyish-black.

This is removed by solution in hot dilute sulphuric acid and a layer of pure frosted silver is left on the surface, which appears dead white in colour, and has lost its metallic lustre.

Robespierre, who hated the Girondists, whose lustre had so long obscured his own, had proposed to includethem in the proscription lists of September; the Mountain to a man desired their overthrow.

Metallic sodium possesses a silvery lustre, but on exposure to moist air the surface is rapidly dulled by a layer of the hydroxide.

The faces of slates have usually a slightly silky lustre due to the abundance of minute scales of mica all lying parallel and reflecting light simultaneously from their pearly basal planes.

An important character, and one by which the mineral may always be recognized, is the perfect cubical cleavage, on which the lustre is brilliant and metallic. The colour of the mineral and of its streak is lead-grey; it is opaque; the hardness is 2 2 and the specific gravity 7.5.

It is a dark blue powder with a marked coppery lustre.

On this account the fibres of tussur or tussore silk tend to split up into fine fibrillae under the various preparatory processes in manufacturing, and its riband structure is the cause of the glassy lustre peculiar to the woven and finished fibres.

Both in the gum and in the boiled-off state silk has the peculiar property of imbibing certain metallic salts largely and combining very firmly with them, the fibre remaining to external appearance undiminished in strength and lustre, but much added to in size and weight.

Magnesium is a silvery white metal possessing a high lustre.

It preserves its lustre in dry air, but in moist air it becomes tarnished by the formation of a film of oxide.

The erection of the obelisks of the Vatican, the Lateran, the Piazza del Popolo and the square behind the tribune of Sta Maria Maggiore lent a lustre to Rome which no other city in the world could rival.

Fancy cotton goods are of great variety, and many of them have trade names that are used temporarily or occasion produced on the surface of the cloth by needles placed in a sliding frame; lustre, a light dress material with a lustrous face sometimes made with a cotton warp and woollen weft; zephyr, a light, coloured dress material usually in small patterns; bobbinnet, a machine-made fabric, originally an imitation of lace made with bobbins on a pillow.

C. Ullmann's name of stilpnosiderite, from the Greek ariAirvOs (shining) is sometimes applied to such kinds of limonite as have a pitchy lustre.

Deposits of limonite in cavities may have a rounded surface or even a stalactitic form, and may present a brilliant lustre, of blackish colour, forming what is called in Germany Glaskopf (glass head).

A week after his death, his widow, the princess Mary of England, gave birth to a son who, as William III., was to give added lustre to the house of Orange.

Note that in Turkish su means both " water " and " the lustre of a jewel," while in English we speak of " gems of the first water."

The Chinese prepare a rouge, said to be from safflower, which, spread on the cards on which it is sold, has a brilliant metallic green lustre, but when moistened and applied to the skin assumes a delicate carmine tint.

Malthus has in more modern times derived a certain degree of reflected lustre from the rise and wide acceptance of the Dar, winian hypothesis.

For this reason the mineral is not always readily recognized by inspection, though the perfect dodecahedral cleavage, the adamantine lustre, and the brown streak are characters which may be relied upon.

The event which threw the greatest lustre upon this reign was the acquisition of the kingdom of Burgundy, or Aries, which was bequeathed to Conrad by its king, Rudolph III., the uncle of his wife, Gisela.