mosaic : Idioms & Phrases

• noun arrangement of aerial photographs forming a composite picture
  mosaic; photomosaic.
  

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• a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or white marble.

Webster 1913

• noun a highly diverse culture
  
  • the city's mosaic culture results in great diversity in the arts

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• noun a yellow pigment sometimes suspended in lacquer
  stannic sulfide.
  

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• . (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.

Webster 1913

• noun the laws (beginning with the Ten Commandments) that God gave to the Israelites through Moses; it includes many rules of religious observance given in the first five books of the Old Testament (in Judaism these books are called the Torah)
  Law of Moses.
  

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• . See Mosaic, n.

Webster 1913

• noun a disease of the leaves of potato plants
  

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• noun a plant disease causing discoloration of the leaves of tobacco plants
  

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• noun the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic; it was the first virus discovered (1892)
  TMV.
  

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Un`-Mo*sa"ic adjective

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1. Not according to Moses; unlike Moses or his works.

   By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic. Milton.

Webster 1913