Definition of mettle

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Mettle (n.) Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense..

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High-mettled :: High-mettled (a.) Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed..
Thoroughbred :: Thoroughbred (a.) Bred from the best blood through a long line; pure-blooded; -- said of stock, as horses. Hence, having the characteristics of such breeding; mettlesome; courageous; of elegant form, or the like..
Pride :: Pride (n.) Consciousness of power; fullness of animal spirits; mettle; wantonness; hence, lust; sexual desire; esp., an excitement of sexual appetite in a female beast..
Gallant :: Gallant (n.) A man of mettle or spirit; a gay; fashionable man; a young blood.
Stuffy :: Stuffy (a.) Stout; mettlesome; resolute.
Fiery :: Fiery (a.) Unrestrained; fierce; mettlesome; spirited.
Prance :: Prance (v. i.) To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle..
Mettle :: Mettle (n.) Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense..
Metal :: Metal (n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.
Muddy-mettled :: Muddy-mettled (a.) Dull-spirited.
Self-mettle :: Self-mettle (n.) Inborn mettle or courage; one's own temper.
Spunky :: Spunk (n.) An inflammable temper; spirit; mettle; pluck; as, a man of spunk..
#NAME? :: -some (a.) An adjective suffix having primarily the sense of like or same, and indicating a considerable degree of the thing or quality denoted in the first part of the compound; as in mettlesome, full of mettle or spirit; gladsome, full of gladness; winsome, blithesome, etc..
Dismettled :: Dismettled (a.) Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit..
Mettlesome :: Mettlesome (a.) Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse..
Mettled :: Mettled (a.) Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
Birkie :: Birkie (n.) A lively or mettlesome fellow.
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