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Steel
·noun A chalybeate medicine.
II. Steel ·noun A weapon, as a sword, dagger, ·etc.
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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Hard
·adv Close or near.
II. Hard ·adv So as to raise difficulties.
III. Hard ·adv Uneasily; vexatiousl...
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hard
Stale beer, nearly sour, is said to be hard. Hard also means severe: as, hard fate, a hard master.
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hard
A road-path made through mud for landing at. (See ard.)
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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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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.
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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....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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frosted steel
The damasked sword-blades.
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Hard grass
·- A name given to several different grasses, especially to the Roltbollia incurvata, and to the spe...
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Hard-favored
·adj Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored.
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Hard-featured
·adj Having coarse, unattractive or stern features.
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Hard-fisted
·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly.
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Hard-fought
(·adv Vigorously) contested; as, a hard-fought battle.
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Hard-handed
·adj Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.
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Hard-headed
·adj Having sound judgment; sagacious; shrewd.
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Hard-hearted
·adj Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
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Hard-labored
·adj Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied.
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Hard-mouthed
·adj Not sensible to the bit; not easily governed; as, a hard-mouthed horse.
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Hard-tack
·noun A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
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Hard-visaged
·adj Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured.
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die hard
To die hard, is to shew no signs of fear or contrition at the gallows; not to whiddle or squeak. Thi...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hard cash
Silver or gold coin.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hard drinker
One who drinks to excess; a drunkard.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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hard money
A common term for silver and gold, in contradistinction from paper money.
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hard pushed
To be bard pressed; to be in a difficulty; and especially, as a mercantile phrase, to be hard presse...
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hard run
To be hard pressed; and especially to be in want of money. The same as hard pushed.
We knew the Tam...
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blowing hard
Said of the wind when it is strong and steady.
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hard bargain
A useless fellow; a skulker.
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hard fish
A term indiscriminately applied to cod, ling, haddock, torsk, &c., salted and dried.
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hard gale
When the violence of the wind reduces a ship to be under her storm staysails, No. 10 force.
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hard-head
The Clupea menhaden, or Alosa tyrannus, an oily fish taken in immense quantities on the American coa...
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hard-horse
A tyrannical officer.
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hard up
The tiller so placed as to carry the rudder close over to leeward of the stern-post. Also, used figu...
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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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hard-a-lee
The situation of the tiller when it brings the rudder hard over to windward. Strictly speaking, it o...
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hard and fast
Said of a ship on shore.
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hard-a-port!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the starboard-side of the stern-post...
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hard-a-starboard
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder over to the port-side of the stern-post, whi...
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hard-a-weather!
The order so to place the tiller as to bring the rudder on the lee-side of the stern-post, whichever...
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king's hard bargain
A useless fellow, who is not worth his hire.
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Steel, Mrs. Flora Annie (Webster)
(b. 1847)
Novelist. Wide-awake Stories (1884), From the Five Rivers (1893), The Potter's Thumb (189...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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a hard row to hoe
A metaphor derived from hoeing corn, meaning a difficult matter or job to accomplish.
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Three Hard Court, Creechurch Lane
See Three Herring Court.
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hard at his a-se
Close after him.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hard up in a clinch, and no knife to cut the seizing
Overtaken by misfortune, and no means of evading it.
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