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me smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well. Bacon.

To stretch out before. [R.] "Doomed to feel the great Idomeneus' portended steel." Pope.

A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled is hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar.

A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.

anganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

so as to convert it from the condition of cast iron to that of wrought iron. Ure. Puddled steel, steel made directly from cast iron by a modification of the puddling process.

The art or process of converting cast iron into wrought iron or steel by subjecting it to intense heat and frequent stirring in a reverberatory furnace in the presence of oxidizing substances, by which it is freed from a portion of its carbon and other impurities. Puddling furnace, a reverberatory furnace in which cast…

A tool, usually of steel, variously shaped at one end for different uses, and either solid, for stamping or for perforating holes in metallic plates and other substances, or hollow and sharpedged, for cutting out blanks, as for buttons, steel pens, jewelry, and the like; a die.

Manganese dioxide, a mineral of an iron-black or dark steel- gray color and metallic luster, usually soft. Pyrolusite parts with its oxygen at a red heat, and is extensively used in discharging the brown and green tints of glass (whence its name).

To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

One of the circular iron or steel rails on which the chassis of a heavy gun is turned.

A bar of steel or iron, forming part of the track on which the wheels roll. It is usually shaped with reference to vertical strength, and is held in place by chairs, splices, etc.

A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.

A heavy steel or iron beak attached to the prow of a steam war vessel for piercing or cutting down the vessel of an enemy; also, a vessel carrying such a beak.

To restore carbon to; as, to recarbonize iron in converting it into steel.

Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.

evengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

A narrow strip or shred; as, a steel or magnesium ribbon; sails torn to ribbons.

ddles the beam of a balance, along which it can be moved in the manner of the weight on a steelyard.

Violence; force; fury. [Obs.] Whose raging rigor neither steel nor brass could stay. Spenser.