Mo·sa·ic, a. Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.
A very beautiful mosaic pavement. --Addison.
Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine.
Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder, and used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It was called by the alchemists aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. Called also bronze powder.
Mosaic work. See Mosaic, n.
Au·rum n. Gold.
Aurum fulminans (░). See Fulminate.
Aurum mosaicum (░). See Mosaic.
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