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Definitions: Meerschaum |
MeerschaumNoun1. A white clayey mineral. 2. A pipe having a bowl made of meerschaum. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "meerschaum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references) |
Etymology: Meerschaum \Meer"schaum\, noun. [German expression, literally, sea foam; meer sea schaum foam; but it perhaps is corruption of the Tartaric name myrsen. Compare to Mere lake, and Scum.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.) A fine white clay, which for convenience in coloring it brown is made into tobacco pipes and smoked by the workmen engaged in that industry. The purpose of coloring it has not been disclosed by the manufacturers. There was a youth (you've heard before, This woeful tale, may be), Who bought a meerschaum pipe and swore That color it would he! He shut himself from the world away, Nor any soul he saw. He smoke by night, he smoked by day, As hard as he could draw. His dog died moaning in the wrath Of winds that blew aloof; The weeds were in the gravel path, The owl was on the roof. "He's gone afar, he'll come no more," The neighbors sadly say. And so they batter in the door To take his goods away. Dead, pipe in mouth, the youngster lay, Nut-brown in face and limb. "That pipe's a lovely white," they say, "But it has colored him!" The moral there's small need to sing -- 'Tis plain as day to you: Don't play your game on any thing That is a gamester too. Martin Bulstrode. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Meerschaum (2 syl., German, sea-froth.) This mineral, from having been found on the sea-shore in rounded white lumps, was ignorantly supposed to be sea-froth petrified; but it is a compound of silica, magnesia, lime, water, and carbonic acid. When first dug it lathers like soap, and is used as a soap by the Tartars. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mining | See:sepiolite. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: MeerschaumSynonym: sepiolite (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Meerschaum |
| English words defined with "meerschaum": Kiefekil ♦ Sea foam. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "meerschaum": agglomerated meerschaum ♦ meerschaum, Misnomers ♦ natural meerschaum ♦ sea-foam. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Meerschaum" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (meerschaum). |
| "Meerschaum" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Meerschaum" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "meerschaum": agglomerated meerschaum ♦ natural meerschaum. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
meerschaum pipe | 65 |
meerschaum | 38 |
antique meerschaum pipe | 6 |
meerschaum pipe smoking | 5 |
meerschaum saxophone | 4 |
meerschaum missouri | 4 |
meerschaum peterson | 3 |
block meerschaum | 2 |
making meerschaum pipe pipe | 2 |
antique meerschaum | 2 |
aaa meerschaum | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "meerschaum"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | морска пяна (sea foam, surf), лула от морска пяна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | naturligt merskum (natural meerschaum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | natuurlijk meerschuim (natural meerschaum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | merenvaha. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | écume de mer reconstituée (agglomerated meerschaum), écume de mer naturelle (natural meerschaum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | meerschaumpfeife, meerschaum. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συσσωματωμένο σήπιο (agglomerated meerschaum), φυσικό σήπιο (natural meerschaum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | habkõ (holy-stone, pumice, pumice stone). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sepiolite. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eerschaummay magnesite (giobertite, magnesite), submissão (abandonment, acquiescence, allegiance, compliance, conformity, humming, obedience, resignation, subjection, submission, subordination). (various references) spumã de mare (pumice), pipã din spumã de mare. (various references) сепиолит, морская пенка, пенковая трубка. (various references) pipa de espuma de mar, espuma (floating waste, foam, froth, frothiness, head, lather, scud, scum, spray, spume, surf, surface scum). (various references) sjöskumspipa, sjöskum (sea foam). (various references) แร่สีขาวใช้ทำกล้องยาสูบ. (various references) lületaşı (sea foam), eskişehir taşı. (various references) bọt biển. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meerschaum": meerschaums. (additional references) | |
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"Meerschaum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Marscham, meerscaum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-m-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: charmeuse. | |
-2 letters: cashmere, machrees, marchese. | |
-3 letters: amerces, cesurae, cummers, euchres, hammers, hareems, heaumes, hemmers, hummers, machree, marches, measure, mesarch, racemes, reaches, schemer, schmear, schmeer, scummer, shammer. | |
-4 letters: ameers, amerce, amuser, arches, causer, cereus, ceruse, cesura, chares, charms, chaser, cheers, creams, crease, creesh, cremes, cummer, emmers, eschar, euchre, haeres, hammer, hareem, harems, hearse, heaume, hemmer. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-m-m-r-s-u" | |
+1 letter: meerschaums. | |
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