The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metallic \Me*tal"lic\, a. [L. metallicus, fr. metallum: cf. F. m['e]tallique. See Metal.]
Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
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(Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; conductive of electricity; basic; forming positive ions in solution; antacid.
Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic iron.
Metallic paper, paper covered with a thin solution of lime, whiting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced.
Metallic tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with the air passages contains both air and liquid.
Usage examples of "metallic paper".
Flattening the wad of metallic paper until it was relatively smooth, she then neatly folded it once.
The tiny scrap of metallic paper fluttered slightly in the breeze of the life-support system, nothing more.
Paul held out his hands for a magnabord with a single sheet of metallic paper on it.
At the door of her billet in the Bachelor Officers' Quarters, she found a lush bouquet of pink, black, and red roses, wrapped in silver-and-black striped metallic paper.
I noticed the date and froze, my hands clenched on the metallic paper.
Director Caldwell Patterson of the Galactic Library sat at the desk in his office deep in the planet, a sheet of metallic paper in his hands.