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Definition of Malleate
1. v. t. To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Definition of Malleate
1. Verb. To beat with a hammer ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Malleate
1. to hammer [v MALLEATED, MALLEATING, MALLEATES] - See also: hammer
Medical Definition of Malleate
1. To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf. Origin: L. Malleatus hammered, fr. Malleus a hammer. See Mall. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Malleate
Literary usage of Malleate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"Figs. J to P. Diagrams showing Forms of Trophi. (After Hudson and Gosse.) J,
malleate. K, Sub-malleate. ..."
2. A Dictionary, Hindustani & English: Accompanied by a Reversed Dictionary by Duncan Forbes (1858)
"... to malleate, or cause to form by hammering, to bury, &c. ... a. to malleate,
to form by hammering ; to make, to form ; n. to be made, fashioned. ..."
3. Reprint of the Original Descriptions of the Genus Achatinella by E. W. Thwing (1907)
"The intermediate whorls striate, the last half of the penultimate and the last
whorl distinctly malleate, with long narrow obliquely descending facets. ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"[< malleate + -ion.] 1. The act of beating into a plate or leaf, as a metal;
extension by beating. ..."
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