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Definition of Tinlike
1. resembling tin [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tinlike
Literary usage of Tinlike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of American Sculpture by Lorado Taft (1903)
"The hair is extremely monotonous, with the true Thorwaldsen touch; the drapery
tinlike. Even when they did the nude fairly well, those early men were almost ..."
2. A Text-book of Mineralogy: With an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and by Edward Salisbury Dana (1885)
"... in which the planes about the opposite extremities of the vertical axis are
tinlike ; thus, the planes of one or more hemi-pyramids may occur at one ..."
3. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong (1883)
"... by means of its tinlike tail, and breathing through spiracles placed Ы-hind
the In ail ; the amazing transformation it undergoes when raising its ..."
4. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1878)
"Now the leucin formed in the alimentary canal is carried by the portal blood
straight to the liver; and the liver, tinlike other glandular ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1857)
"The great charm of this work is that it is entirely free from affectation; and
the writer, tinlike most German writers in philosophy, is possessed with the ..."
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