radium
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Is radium a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (textiles, dated) A type of cloth woven from silk or synthetic yarn, often with a shiny appearance.Examples: "City retailers are doing well with high-class radiums printed in bright greens, brilliant purples and strong yellows. Such are the high novelties."; "In printed silks for outer garments and linings there are crêpe de chines, silk and cotton crêpes, georgettes, radiums and mousselines de soie. [...] [O]n radiums; Japanese print designs, silhouetted with parasols or flowers and shrubs, treated in Japanese style, on dark grounds, are employed. There are also a number of futuristic figures printed on radiums."; "Radium satins will also be used extensively in the spring season."countabledateduncountable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive, obsolete) To treat (a tumour, etc.) with radium.Examples: "We want popular verbs for several operations introduced by modern science. The X-rays, the Finsen treatment for lupus, the operation of radium for cancer, and what not—what are the words for these? A man is guillotined or hanged; his leg is amputated; he is trepanned. What is it when he is rayed, Finsened, radiumed? [From the St. James's Gazette.]"; "The victims thereof [i.e., of rheumatism] are drenched with salicylates and iodides; they are sent to spas to be bombarded by the doucheur and spanked by the masseur; they are subjected to electrical ecstasies and suffer Zander contortions; they are cataphoresed, vaccinated, serummed, radiumed and dieted, with results which vary from the sublime to the pathetic."; "The problem that we have to face in radiuming tumors is very complicated. [...] [T]he problem of distribution is to distribute throughout the territory irradiated an even dose, and we have found that that is a very difficult thing."Synonyms: radiumizeambitransitiveobsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary