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Soft
·superl Somewhat weak in intellect.
II. Soft ·superl Weak in character; impressible.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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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...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Soft-finned
·adj Having the fin rays cartilaginous or flexible; without spines;
— said of certain fishes.
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Soft-headed
·adj Weak in intellect.
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Soft-hearted
·adj Having softness or tenderness of heart; susceptible of pity or other kindly affection; gentle; ...
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Soft-shell
·adj ·Alt. of Soft-shelled.
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Soft-shelled
·adj Having a soft or fragile shell.
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Soft-spoken
·adj Speaking softly; having a mild or gentle voice; hence, mild; affable.
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soft sawder
Flattery; blarney.
Then he did a leadin' article on slavery and non-intervention, and spoke a littl...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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soft soap
Flattery; blarney. A vulgar phrase, though much used.
to soft soap
To flatter; to blarney.
I am t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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soft-laes
A term on our northern coast for the small coves and bays formed by the waves on the more friable pa...
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soft-plank
Picking a soft plank in the deck, is choosing an easy berth. (See plank it, to.)
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soft tack
See soft tommy
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soft tommy
, or soft tack.
Loaves of bread served out instead of biscuit.
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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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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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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
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pricking for a soft plank
Selecting a place on the deck for sleeping upon.
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