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lead
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  1. Most important:
  2. First or foremost:
  3. Made of or containing lead
plumbous
(Chemistry) Specifically, of compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.
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  1. (Chemistry) Specifically, of compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.
  2. Of, like, or containing lead, esp. divalent lead
  3. (Chemistry) Of, pertaining to, resembling or containing lead.
plumbic
Of, like, or containing lead, esp. tetravalent lead
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  1. Of, like, or containing lead, esp. tetravalent lead
plumbiferous
Containing lead.
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  1. Containing lead.
pewter
Made of pewter
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  1. Made of pewter
galena
A city of extreme northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River. It was a prosperous port and the center of a lead-mining region during the 1800s.
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  1. A city of extreme northwest Illinois on the Mississippi River. It was a prosperous port and the center of a lead-mining region during the 1800s.
  2. A gray, metallic mineral occurring in cube-shaped crystals within veins of igneous rock or in sedimentary rocks. It is the main ore of lead. Chemical formula: PbS.
burdensome
Causing hardship or distress.
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  1. Causing hardship or distress.
  2. Hard to bear; heavy; oppressive
  3. Weighing much or hard to carry; heavy.
ponderous
Dull and lacking grace or fluency:
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  1. Dull and lacking grace or fluency:
  2. Slow or difficult to manage, especially because of complexity:
  3. That seems heavy; bulky; massive
oppressive
Burdensome or difficult to bear.
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  1. Burdensome or difficult to bear.
  2. Difficult to cope with; causing hardship or depressed spirits:
  3. Tyrannical or exercising unjust power.
weighty
Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
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  1. Adapted to turn the balance in the mind, or to convince; important; forcible; serious; momentous.
  2. Of great influence, power, importance, etc.
  3. Burdensome; oppressive
dull
Not vivid; not brilliant; dim
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  1. Not vivid; not brilliant; dim
  2. Cloudy or overcast:
  3. Not bright, vivid, or shiny:
ashen
Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
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  1. Of, relating to, or made from the wood of the ash tree.
  2. Like ashes, esp. in color; pale; pallid
  3. Resembling ashes, especially in color; very pale:
pale
Of a low intensity of color; light.
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  1. Of a low intensity of color; light.
  2. Whitish in complexion; pallid.
  3. Feeble; weak:
pewter
Made of pewter
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  1. Made of pewter
flagging
Declining; weakening:
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  1. Declining; weakening:
  2. Weakening or drooping
lackadaisical
Showing lack of interest or spirit; listless; languid
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  1. Showing lack of interest or spirit; listless; languid
  2. Showing no interest or enthusiasm.
languid
Showing little or no vitality or animation:
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  1. Showing little or no vitality or animation:
  2. Sluggish; dull; slow
  3. Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; listless:
limp
Lacking firmness, energy, or vigor
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  1. Lacking firmness, energy, or vigor
  2. Lacking or having lost rigidity, as of structure or substance:
  3. Lacking or having lost stiffness or body; flaccid, drooping, wilted, etc.
listless
Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
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  1. Lacking energy, enthusiasm, or liveliness.
  2. Characterized by such a feeling
  3. Lacking energy or disinclined to exert effort; lethargic:
lymphatic
Of, or caused by improper functioning of, the lymph nodes
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  1. Of, or caused by improper functioning of, the lymph nodes
  2. Sluggish; without energy: a sluggish condition was formerly thought to be due to too much lymph in the body
  3. (Anatomy) Of or relating to lymph or to the nodes or vessels of the lymphatic system.
spiritless
Lacking spirit, energy, or vigor; listless; depressed
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  1. Lacking spirit, energy, or vigor; listless; depressed
Find another word for leaden. In this page you can discover 30 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for leaden, like: lead, plumbous, plumbic, plumbean, plumbiferous, pewter, galena, burdensome, ponderous, oppressive and weighty.

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  • leaden tube and a concave lens in the other one.

  • In 1701, New York, seeking another claim, obtained from the Iroquois a grant to the king of England of this territory which they claimed to have conquered but from which they had subsequently been expelled, and this grant was confirmed in 1726 and again in 1744 About 1730 English traders from Pennsylvania and Virginia began to visit the eastern and southern parts of the territory and the crisis approached as a French Canadian expedition under Celeron de Bienville took formal possession of the upper Ohio Valley by planting leaden plates at the mouths of the principal streams. This was in 1749 and in the same year George II.

  • It is then oxidized to anthraquinone by means of sodium dichromate and sulphuric acid in leaden vats, steam heated so that the mixture can be brought to the boil.

  • In the process employed at the Worcester Works in the Transvaal, the liquors, containing about 150 grains of gold per ton and from 0.08 to o 01% of cyanide, are treated in rectangular vats in which is placed a series of iron and leaden plates at intervals of 1 in.

  • Further, Pope Pius confined the functions of the chancery to the sending out of bulls under the leaden seal (sub plumbo), for the erection of dioceses, the provision of bishoprics and consistorial benefices, and other affairs of importance, these bulls being sent out by order of the Consistorial Congregation.

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