Definition of steel

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Steel (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate..

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Bone :: Bone (n.) Whalebone; hence, a piece of whalebone or of steel for a corset..
Casehardening :: Casehardening (n.) The act or process of converting the surface of iron into steel.
Anvil :: Anvil (n.) An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped..
Steeling :: Steeled (imp. & p. p.) of Stee.
Cymbal :: Cymbal (n.) A musical instrument used by gypsies and others, made of steel wire, in a triangular form, on which are movable rings..
Flintlock :: Flintlock (n.) A lock for a gun or pistol, having a flint fixed in the hammer, which on striking the steel ignites the priming..
Strond :: Stromeyerite (n.) A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.
Puddling :: Puddling (n.) The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities..
Set :: Set (n.) A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.
Tetradymite :: Tetradymite (n.) A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Called also telluric bismuth..
Schreibersite :: Schreibersite (n.) A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron..
Umbrella :: Umbrella (n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol..
Needle :: Needle (n.) A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing..
Lames :: Lames (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.
Chalybeous :: Chalybeous (a.) Steel blue; of the color of tempered steel.
Magnet :: Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet..
Bluebottle :: Bluebottle (n.) A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
Recarbonize :: Recarbonize (v. t.) To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel..
Center :: Center (n.) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc., upon which the work is held, and about which it revolves..
Ruthenium :: Ruthenium (n.) A rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. Symbol Ru. Atomic weight 103.5. Specific gravity 12.26. See Platinum metals, under Platinum..
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