METAL

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin ~lum mine, ~, from Greek ~lon Date: 14th century any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides, 2. mettle 1a, the substance out of which a person or thing is made, glass in its molten state, 4. printing type ~, matter set in ~ type, road ~ , heavy ~ , II. transitive verb (-aled or -alled; -aling or -alling) Date: 1617 to cover or furnish with ~