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Spring
·vi A race; lineage.
II. Spring ·vi A youth; a springal.
III. Spring ·vi Elastic power or force.
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Spring
(Heb. ain, "the bright open source, the eye of the landscape"). To be carefully distinguished from "...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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spring
A crack running obliquely through any part of a mast or yard, which renders it unsafe to carry the u...
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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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main-spring
The source of continuous motion in a time-keeper. Also, that part of a musket-lock which is sunk int...
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spring-beam
In a steamer, a fore-and-aft beam for connecting the two paddle-beams, and supporting the outer end ...
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spring-forelock
One jagged or split at the point, thereby forming springs to prevent its drawing.
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spring-searcher
A steel-pronged tool to search for defects in the bore of a gun.
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spring-stays
Are rather smaller than the stays, and are placed above them, being intended as substitutes should t...
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spring-tide
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
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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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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....
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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The Sailor's Word-Book
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spring-ankle warehouse
Newgate, or any other gaol: IRISH.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Open-hearth steel
·add. ·- ·see under <<Open>>.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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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moor with a spring on the cable, to
See spring.
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