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noun

Alloy n.

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.

A baser metal mixed with a finer. "Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it."

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy."

verb

Alloy v. t. (past & past part. alloyed; pres. part. alloying)

To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.

To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.

To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.

Alloy v. t. To form a metallic compound. "Gold and iron alloy with ease."

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Etymology of 'Alloy'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Alloy" Quotes from Famous Books

... and its white oxide, with new forms of front and rear walls—a mode of dispensing with the common retorts for the reduction of the ores of zinc into oxides, and replacing them by one large retort, in which the ore is more advantageously treated—the application of zinc to the alloy of iron and steel, which are thereby rendered more malleable and less liable to oxidation—a saving of the products of distillation and oxidation of zinc and other volatile metals, by means of a cotton, ...

— The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 • Various

... fear, or disquietude it might bring, the joy of it was great enough to make these very trials desirable, if only to prove to him and me that the links which bound us were forged from truest metal, without any base alloy to mar their purity and ...

— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green

... to sleep," said Mrs. Prichard, making a great effort. "That must be Dave's duck-pond, across the road." The duck-pond had no alloy. She did not feel that her curiosity about Dave's other Granny was quite ...

— When Ghost Meets Ghost • William Frend De Morgan

... furnishes (if you will tolerate the simile) the only elective affinity in moral chemistry. Because ingots are not dug out of the earth, is it not equally unwise and ungrateful to ridicule and denounce the hopeful, patient, tireless laborers who handle the alloy and ultimately disintegrate the precious metal? Even if the world were bankrupt in morality and religion—which, thank God, it is not—one grand shining example, like Mr. Hammond, whose unswerving consistency, noble charity, and sublime unselfishness ...

— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans

... closed, but the lock of the door was gone, the magnesium-beryllium alloy burned away. They opened the door and entered. The room seemed in perfect order. The guard lay motionless in the steel guard chamber at one side; the thick, bullet-proof glass made his outlines a little ...

— The Black Star Passes • John W Campbell

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