The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metalline \Met"al*line\, a. [Cf. F. m['e]tallin.] (Chem.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.
Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water. [R.]
Metalline \Met"al*line\ (? or ?), n. (Chem.) A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context chemistry English) Relating to, or resembling, a metal; metallic. 2 Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate. n. (context chemistry dated English) A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-coloured metal, used in the bearings of machines to reduce friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
Usage examples of "metalline".
Poor little girl from Metalline Falls comes to the big city to go to college.
He wondered how the girl on the roof was doing back in Metalline Falls.
Chancing to meet with one of his acquaintance at a certain coffee-house, the discourse turned upon the characters of mankind, when, among other oddities, his friend brought upon the carpet a certain old gentlewoman of such a rapacious disposition, that, like a jackdaw, she never beheld any metalline substance, without an inclination, and even an effort to secrete it for her own use and contemplation.
The clan, the central power behind House Metalline, was the primary producer of weapons-quality steel in the kingdom of Silvanesti.
Tall, sinewy works, these statues in metalline crystals rose many miles into the hot air, filling it with grace and strange, almost startling beauty.