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Malleable (medicine) and terrae filius (iou)


Malleable (medicine)


malleable


Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonised cast iron. See Iron. Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

Origin: F. Malleable, fr. LL. Malleare to hammer. See Malleate.

Source: Websters Dictionary


terrae filius (iou)



terrae filius noun phr. . L16.
[Latin = a son of the earth, a man of unknown origin.]
A person of doubtful or obscure parentage. L16.
At Oxford University, an orator who made a humorous and satirical speech during the Act or public defence of candidates' theses. Cf. PREVARICATOR 2, TRIPOS 2a. obsolete exc. Hist. M17.