Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster)

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• Flora

  Flōra, ae, f. [flos, v. flo], I the goddess of flowers , whose festival was celebrated on the 28th ...

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• Flora

  ·noun The goddess of flowers and spring. II. Flora ·noun The complete system of vegetable species g...

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• Besant, Mrs. Annie

  (b. 1847) Theosophist. Re-incarnation (1892), Death and After (1893), Karma (1895), The Self and it...

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• Steel

  ·noun A chalybeate medicine. II. Steel ·noun A weapon, as a sword, dagger, ·etc. III. Steel ·noun ...

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• Steel

  The "bow of steel" in (A.V.) 2 Sam. 22:35; Job 20:24; Ps. 18:34 is in the Revised Version "bow of br...

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• steel

  The house of correction. ...

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• Steel

  In all cases were the word "steel" occurs in the Authorized Version the true rendering of the Hebrew...

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• Mrs.

  ·- The customary abbreviation of Mistress when used as a title of courtesy, in writing and printing....

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• Keary, Annie

  (1825-1879) Novelist, wrote some good novels, including Castle Daly, A Doubting Heart, and Oldbury,...

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• Thomas, Annie (Mrs. Pender Cudlip)

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• Alloy steel

  ·add. ·- Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually ...

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• Basic steel

  ·add. ·- Steel produced by the basic process. ...

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• Bessemer steel

  ·- Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion of the carbon and other impurities t...

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• Bronze steel

  ·add. ·- A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns. ...

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• Carbon steel

  ·add. ·- Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying el...

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• Cast steel

  ·- ·see Cast steel, under <<Steel>>. ...

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• Cement steel

  ·add. ·- Steel produced by cementation; blister steel. ...

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• Chrome steel

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Chromium steel, under <<Steel>>. ...

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• Crucible steel

  ·add. ·- Cast steel made by fusing in crucibles crude or scrap steel, wrought iron, and other ingred...

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• Damascus steel

  ·add. ·- ·see Damask steel, under <<Damask>>. ...

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• Hard steel

  ·add. ·- Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) ca...

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• High steel

  ·add. ·- Steel containing a high percentage of carbon; high-carbon steel. ...

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• India steel

  ·add. ·- ·same·as <<Wootz>>. ...

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• Ingot steel

  ·add. ·- Steel cast in ingots from the Bessemer converter or open-hearth furnace. ...

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• Low steel

  ·add. ·- ·see under <<Low>>. ...

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• Manganese steel

  ·add. ·- Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and ...

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• Native steel

  ·add. ·- A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized a...

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• Natural steel

  ·add. ·- Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct proce...

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• Nickel steel

  ·add. ·- A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used fo...

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• Phosphorus steel

  ·add. ·- A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon. ...

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• Shear steel

  ·add. ·- ·see under <<Shear>>. ...

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• Soft steel

  ·add. ·- Steel low in carbon; mild steel; ingot iron. ...

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• Spring steel

  ·add. ·- A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, ·etc. ...

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• Structural steel

  ·add. ·- Rolled steel in structural shapes. II. Structural steel ·add. ·- A kind of strong mild ste...

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• Tool steel

  ·add. ·- Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tool...

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• Tungsten steel

  ·add. ·- A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under ...

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• Weld steel

  ·add. ·- A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion. ...

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• Wolfram steel

  ·add. ·- ·same·as Tungsten steel. ...

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• Steel Alley

  In Houndsditch. Houses in the alley given 1569 to the parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr (End....

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• steel bar

  A needle. A steel bar flinger; a taylor, stay- maker, or any other person using a needle. ...

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• frosted steel

  The damasked sword-blades. ...

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• "Swan, Annie S."

  see Smith, Mrs. Burnett. ...

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• Open-hearth steel

  ·add. ·- ·see under <<Open>>. ...

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• Siemens-Martin steel

  ·add. ·- ·see Open-hearth steel, under <<Open>>. ...

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• Centlivre, Mrs. Susanna

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