n. [ L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armineá. ] (Chem.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead, lead tetroxide, lead orthoplumbate, mineral orange, mineral red, Paris red, Saturn red, and less definitively, lead oxide. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alumen. See Alum. ] (Chem.) same as aluminum, chiefly British in usage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aluminium bronze or
gold, a pale gold-colored alloy of aluminium and copper, used for journal bearings, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. one of the units in a condominium{ 2 }.
Syn. -- condo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a complex of dwelling units (as an apartment house) in which each unit is individually owned (as contrasted with rented). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Skr. ēka one + E. aluminium. ] (Chem.) The name given by Mendeleev to a hypothetical element, -- later discovered and called gallium. See Gallium, and cf. Ekabor. Also see periodic table. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

{ ‖ } n. [ L. postliminium, post after + limen, liminis, a threshold. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Internat. Law) The right by virtue of which persons and things taken by an enemy in war are restored to their former state when coming again under the power of the nation to which they belonged. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]