Amalgam: Definition and part of speech

Amalgam

  1. v. t. / i. To amalgamate.
  2. n. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; as, an amalgam of tin, bismuth, etc.
  3. n. A mixture or compound of different things.
  4. n. A native compound of mercury and silver.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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