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Steel
STEEL, n. [G.]
1. Iron combined with a small portion of carbon; iron refined and hardened, used in making instruments, and particularly useful as the material of edged tools. It is called in chemistry, carburet of iron; but this is more usually the denomination of plumbago.
2. Figuratively, weapons; particularly, offensive weapons, swords, spears and the like.
Brave Macbeth with his brandishd steel.
-- While doubting thus he stood, receivd the steel bathd in this brothers blood.
3. Medicines composed of steel, as steel fillings.
After relaxing, steel strengthens the solids.
4. Extreme hardness; as heads or hearts of steel.
STEEL, a. Made of steel; as a steel plate or buckle.
STEEL, v.t.
1. To overlay, point or edge with steel; as, to steel the point of a sword; to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
2. To make hard or extremely hard.
O God of battles, steel my soldiers hearts.
Lies well steeld with weighty arguments.
3. To make hard; to make insensible or obdurate; as, to steel the heart against pity; to steel the mind or heart against reproof or admonition.
steel appears in definitions for these words:
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Antiacid Arbalist Armenian Arsenic Auger Balance Bate Bead Beam Black-lead Blade Blister Bodkin Bow Burden Burnish Burnisher Busk Butteris Case-harden Chalybean Chisel Cobalt Compass Copper Cradle Cymbal Damask Damaskeening Damasken Date Decarbonize Divorce Endure Fateful File Firelock Flint Forge Gad Gaffle Galena Give Glare Gride Grind Halberd Hammer Hammerhard Harden Harness Ignescent Iridium Jasper Javelin Kit Lever Lock Mail Mourne Needle Orrery Palladium Pechblend Pike Plane Poise Polish Prickpunch Punch Puncheon Putty Ragstone Revengeful Ribbed Saw Scate Scintillate Sear Sheeny Siderographch Siderographist Siderographocal Siderography Snap Stealth Steel Steeled Steeliness Steeling Steely Steelyard Sublime Successless Tellurium Temper Tilt Tilted Toughness Tuning-fork Virtuous Wash Well-water White-pyrite White-pyrites Wiredraw Woots
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