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Low
·- strong imp. of Laugh.
II. Low ·noun Fire; a flame; a light.
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low
An old term for a small hill or eminence.
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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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High-low
·noun A laced boot, ankle high.
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Low-church
·adj Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms;
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Low-churchism
·noun The principles of the low-church party.
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Low-churchman
·noun One who holds low-church principles.
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Low-churchmanship
·noun The state of being a low-churchman.
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Low-churchmen
·pl of Low-churchman.
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Low-lived
·adj Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; ...
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Low-minded
·adj Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
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Low-mindedness
·noun The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
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Low-necked
·adj Cut low in the neck; decollete;
— said of a woman's dress.
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Low-pressure
·adj Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
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Low-spirited
·adj Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
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Low-studded
·adj Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
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Low-thoughted
·adj Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
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low pads
Rogues who rob on foot.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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low tide
When there is no money in a man's pocket.
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low water
When there is no money in a man's pocket.
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jimmy low
n.
one of the many names of aTimber-tree, Eucalyptus resinifera, Smith, N.O. Myrtaceae.
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low latitudes
Those regions far removed from the poles of the earth towards the equator, 10° south or north of it....
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low sails
The courses and close-reefed top-sails.
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low water
The lowest point to which the tide ebbs. (See tide.) Also, used figuratively for being in distress, ...
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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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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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frosted steel
The damasked sword-blades.
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Low, Sidney James
Journalist and miscellaneous writer. The Governance of England (1904), A Vision of India (1906), Dic...
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low and aloft
Sail from deck to truck: "every stitch on her."
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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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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