Meanings of metallic lustre in English

I took a piece in my teeth, and the metallic lustre was perfect.

His big, coarse shoes shone with a metallic lustre suggestive of stove polish.

It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character.

The deposit upon the charcoal is of a steel-grey color, with a slightly metallic lustre.

This is the smallest of the Cuckoo tribe, and is known by the metallic lustre of its wings.

I brought to Europe some powders with metallic lustre, taken from very old trunks of Meniscium and Aspidium.

The abdomen fits closely over the cephalothorax, and the epidermis, which has usually a metallic lustre, is sometimes coriaceous.

You never saw a more brilliant metallic lustre than the scales emit-butof this you cannot judge till to-morrow

A very fine gray and black finish, with a rather metallic lustre, may be easily given to brass work.

The eyes were positively beautiful, of a rich chestnut hue, covered with golden white dots, which shone with a metallic lustre.

Properties.-Iodineis solid at the ordinary temperature, presenting the appearance of dark-greyor purple spangles, possessing a high degree of metallic lustre.

She said she began to think that majolica was a false taste; the metallic lustre was fine, but how clumsy the forms!

In the metallic state it is of a light grey color, with but little metallic lustre, very hard, and not very fusible.

All through the wood and leather gold was disseminated in fine particles, and when cut through the characteristic metallic lustre was brightly reflected.

The prevailing colour of this bird is black, with a metallic lustre, and a gleaming of blue steel about its breast and wings.

Its leaves are often a yard across, of a dark coppery bronze, with a purplish metallic lustre that makes the plant very striking.